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04-26-2009, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki View Post
The birthrate in Japan has dropped for 28 consecutive years. Japan has the least number of children and the most elderly in the world. Eventually there will indeed be a lack of able-bodied people. Healthcare and blue collar manufacturing jobs already rely on foreign workers. Due to Japan's lack of desire or inability, whichever it may be, to have children, it must embrace immigration or just... die. There are constantly newspaper articles about this here.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was a lack of desire. More women want to be career women in Japan now-a-days, right? They're opting out of the housewife stuff or the traditional role of one...so I read a good while back anyway.
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