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Originally Posted by Kanji_The_Wanderer
@Hatredcopter:
I knew that Japan was about the size of California, and it had about half the population of the US. (I found that out by studying up on it) I also know that most of their population is around the Tokyo region correct? They have miles and miles of country-side, but no one makes cities there. Since they use that area for crops and wildlife right? Isn't it cheaper to own a house in the country then to get an apartment in the city?
That makes sense, that they'd want someone to do a good job, and make an addition to their society in a positive way, if they just let any gaijin work, and become a janitor, then the population would be even higher. Now hearing that the prices are so high because of the population makes sense, there are so many people, and those people all need the same things to survive, so if they up the prices, the people have no choice to buy it, since there is such a rush to the stores right?
As far as I had known, you needed a Bachelor's degree to work in any type of trade field.
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Roughly 10% of the Japanese population lives in the Tokyo area. Doesn't seem like a lot, but realistically, it is.
I couldn't really tell you about the price of houses in Japan - I never bought one
. Apartments are definitely more expensive in Japan than the US, and they do get cheaper the further you are from city centers and/or train stations. In most cases, the only affordable, nice housing is in areas that require workers to commute several hours (over 3 or 4 hours even) a day.
The issue of population in Japan is rather strange. The birth rate in Japan has been plummeting in the past decade, and as a result, the Japanese population is going down. Unfortunately, this is a very bad thing. Like in the US, Japan had a baby boom many years ago. This generation is now becoming old and retiring, and so many of them are retiring that the social security system in Japan is going to take a huge hit. There aren't enough young people in Japan to support social security for the retiring baby boomers, and the trend continues to be that less and less young Japanese are having children. This is one of the most heated topics in Japan right now, as they'll be facing a crisis if the birth rate doesn't swing back in the other direction soon. In fact, if the trend
hypothetically continued as it were for the next 500 years, there would only be half the population of Japanese in the year 2500 than there are right now. Thats over 60,000,000 less people.
One option for combating this is to get more
skilled foreigners to come work in Japan. However, there hasn't really been any big plan of action regarding this... something is 'supposedly' being planned to get more foreign workers in Japan, but who knows what it'll be or how long it'll take.
However, the population isn't really the primary factor in why prices are so high. It's more to due with how much land and space is available in Japan.