Japan’s Prime Minister has announced he’s bringing in new policies to boost the birth rate, including doubling the budget for child-related policies.
A full plan will be announced in June.
Japan is struggling to cope with record-low birth rates, with 450 schools closing every year.
Al Jazeera’s Lina Abu Akleh reports.
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RIP Japan
Immigrants is the solution. Skilled immigrants. Fertile immigrants.
No. Because they will integerate into society and Japanese prefer only Japanese blood
If my government pays me 100M USD, i’ll have a child
@Leon Skull Kennedy 150 is an exaggeration.. More like 5 dollars
@Rft 97 I’m telling what I’ve seen
@Rft 97 It might be true even some beggars have kids with them and they give excuses like “please help, my 4 kids are hungry”
@Leon Skull Kennedy watch karl rock, feed the baby.
@Leon Skull Kennedywell India’s birth rate is now below replacement rate
Still with your promoting homosexuality
Japan illegalize homosexuality
Time for migrants
Japan is a thousand years old country that is dictated by just 1776 born country which created thru genocide of the native. And now western capitalism style make its population disapear coz of it doesnt fit with the culture and custom of original japan.
Japan should invite more immigrants from developing countries such as Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
@Richard Dawkins do you mean western bombs??
No, don’t let those barbarians invade Japan
@Kongkon Roy are you Japanese?
@Bill Travelling nope bro, I’m kidding. I’m also from one those countries you mentioned. Also Japan is a very conservative country and they will never opt for immigration as a solution. Acquiring their citizenship is also one of the hardest
@Kongkon Roy this is true..japan will never open for immigration at the time..idk if its on the future tho
Send some black guys over there..😂
Women are over worked and not into it
Expensive to live, more work for less income as it seems, housing shortage.. materials to repair/maintain more costly, food insucurity, ww3 looming overhead…robotic A.I. controlled death machines, constant survielance, rising crime.. loss of freedoms, rights..
” Yeah.” Lets have more children and watch them starve some may say sarcastically.
Elderly, middle aged not feeling the love in many places as it seems also. “Begun the culture wars has” in some minds as well..
Japan is certianly in an interesting perdiciment…along with many other nations.
News is kinda all over with the facts and figures.. hard to say much as to what the truth may be..kinda a one day at a time thing here..
Hoping all works out..
Japan with less land area than France should have a maximum 60 million people not 120 million
France has twice the land area of japan and 60 million people
Yep, Japan is very mountainous, most people live near the coast , no room for a population explosion.
Of all policies, reducing the burden on home buyers is not one of them.
The effect of family planning
I am willing to impregnate 1000 japanese women, only pretty women pls..😊
Stop listening to the western feminist, or else this will happen to you
Make it a law that all women must have 8 children with those having 10 and more given £70k as a reward and all child care free and children food and nappies free to the age of 12 for the next 15 years
Improving immigration policies is the next step
That’ll only fasten their extinksion
Give permanent citizenship to people from countries with high density population like Bangladesh.
No need
no way
yeah if u wanna ruin their unique ancient culture
No
No
I, as a Mexican American, would be willing and able to go to Japan and single handedly raised the Japanese population. Respectfully
Respectfully lol
😂😂😂lol
Women in japan have high standards, they are not like the women in the west that accept any loser, you cannot find in asia baby mamas, they would never have kids outside of wedlock that the loser women in the west.
don’t forget to pay child support
Ayo 😂😂😂😂😂
Women are whores. Forced marriage
Lower population is better for the environment… why cant any of u understand this?
Japan already have better environment care compare to India literally trash everywhere so what’s your point
I see it. It’s bad for the capitalists though. If nature flourishes, there will be enough for everybody… most people don’t see it though. Economy is the only thing, apparently.
Real cause is the worst LIBERALISM
Man. I’m in my early 20s and want to have as many kids as I want. Don’t know bout others but I think that having a kid is the best blessing in life.
I mean have all you want. But be sure you can afford it. Kids get to adult age and sometimes never leave the house. On top of economy. The world is more violent because and useless. Someone would rather record your demise on their cellphone than call for ambulances 😂
Also. Don’t make ME pay for your reproductive choices because you want to have the family but leech off the government and my tax dollars.
@M poor thing
@Divine Beauty I still won’t have kids. Humanity going extinct won’t effect me simply because that’s not going to happen in my lifetime. So why should I care?
Right friend 👍
I support you
@Divine Beauty yeah true some people don’t understand that life always won’t be fun. Life is a mixture of fun and misery. Sometimes you’ll be happy sometimes you’ll be sad but we should face it by taking courage from God.
The reasons why low birthrates in the world because the foods are expensive make food more cheap or almost free so that people can make child because they can feed
Cry for W. Genetics survival
😮
One word about the radical Islamist terrorists that are spreading terrorism and ransom around the world.
Japan arable land is too small to have this much population. Almost two times smaller than Bangladesh and 5 times smaller than Turkey.
I want this to happen in India LoL
Like it’ll happen lol y’all are just like China
So ironic. I can help them out.
Can we send our children from africaa
When Japanese will have enough money they will think about kids.
Advice to Japan government, import young Kenya men from Western Kenya if you want to increase your population , believe me just provide this guys with maize meal and chicken your women will be well served in two to three years each one of them will be having two to three children after fifteen yrs the number will have increased to 8-10 kids in each😎
Shut up
I’m not sure whether you’re joking or not, but the chances of immigrant women having kids with Japanese men are higher than Japanese women having kids. Most women over there are feminists and they believe in not wanting kids until they are financially independent. And ultimately it all depends on whether the woman wants a kid or not because she can easily get an abortion without her partner’s consent.
Japanese babies are the cutest.
They are. Too bad they are becoming rarer and rarer every year.
@Peaches N Cream they aren’t rare outside of Japan though especially in the U.S last year I befriended a Japanese American toddler
Fetish comment ever
@Peaches N Cream
Pokemon is trash
@Gwen M/문민지 loves Kpop, CEC, & More
Half Japanese not pure Japanese
Should be reforms current Japanese society structure
Its a good sign that rate of birth in most developed countries have fallen drastically on the other hand in third world countries people continue to beat wild rabbits in reproduction !!!!! No matter what but first world developed countries MUST NOT invite more n more immigrants from third world, if they do so in desperation then they would lose what they have achieved and created after so many decades of hardship and dedication. Just look at UK, when I was in London city I hardly felt like I am in a European city, several parts of city are dominated by third world immigrant ghettos which made me wonder, have I stepped into a third world city or what ??
Pay these women to give birth and take care of the babies. Nobody wants a burden nowadays.😏
So now some pro western countries was already taste their own medicine lol
The Japanese people are sensible, they know what Overpopulation does to countries, keep up the good work .
Overpopulation is not good
But
Negative growth population is also not good
They are on the path to extinction
You do realise at some point the older generation will want to retire and expect the younger people to fill the labour market and pay taxes right?
There are plenty of people to fill the jobs if you have a stable economy, if you want constant economic growth , you need constant population growth , it’s just pure economic GREED which is destroying countries, so stop talking nonsense.
I mean this school is also in fukishima..
Could the cause of low birth rate due to japanese man love watching than actually doing? These country has a very striving B grade movie industries.
😥
It’s good because AI will take 50% job in next 3 years 👍
Japan and European country did the right thing
Japan was a great nation before the war.
@Peaches N Cream
Nope you’re wrong
Many Koreans flew to another country because they dont want their children to be in military service and don’t want to be in North Korea neighborhood. Because I’ve seen many Koreans living here in the Philippines and even in Australia they are migrating 😄🤣.
I think thats the price for prosperity
Almost every first world country is facing this issue
Their own population is declining and are replacing by immigrants
Japan is very advanced, and they will definitely find a good solution no need to be so pessimistic.
Wait for my genes Japan.
This is sad news.
Dang I have to help. I’m coming Japan. Send me all ya ladies.
Japan has no choice but to opens its borders and welcome refugees.
*Japan🇯🇵 have islands dispute with China, Russia, South Korea.*
make border agreement & keep peace!
I might just have to move to Japan and help out with this problem of low birth rates.
You mean, take care of babies and small kids for free? 🙂
America, Canada,China and Korea dreamed the extinction of Japanese race, what’s the problem? They don’t need A-bombs, the Japanese are self-racial cleansing by themselves.
Take immigrants from china & India
Just ban all forms of contraception.
Whatever you do Japan DON’T import migrants. Only the pathetic abandon their own lands
Love the comments section.
Let ME come live with you or you’re racist.
Just like anywhere else in the world (Korea) with an unsafe earth & economic struggle you will put yourself through having children is only for the political / ultra / money elite (which has been the long plan, for these money elite to be the only people to have the world).
Funky cold medina
Import Philippines slum children👶👧👦😅😅😂lol
Give free education for Indians and marriage benefits then birth rate will increase 👍
Dirty little P🅰️JEET 🤡
There was a catastrophe event called Fukushima,a reactor meltdown.could have a Lot to do with that . Sensationalism/ cover story for a free trip?
Fruits of capitalism, feminism, and lghtv…
Life is very expensive in Japan, people cannot afford it
Infinite growth is not the answer.
They better figure out how to get women out of the work force and have them have babies back to back
They better avoid any war…
Human beings are self contradictory. At the same we promote abortion among us in the other hand we are fighting against the extinction of tigers in Asia, or gorilla in Africa… As if we are not part of the natural species. Giving birth for human should be aligned with policies that protect natural species on earth.
Hilarious.
It’s ironic that in the poorest countries where people can hardly afford to feed themselves, they are bringing in some cases five or even more children to this world to a life of hardship and misery.
Women don’t have as many options in those societies and are exposed to extreme abuse.
Countries that are overpopulated need to suffer from this crisis.
I’ll get them pregnant for free 😂
Japanese women dont want children..
Because it’s damaging for them.
As an Asian woman, it is a huge disadvantage. The bulk of household, childcare and societal judgment fall on women. Depending on the background, a lot of mothers have to quit their jobs and be financially dependent (thus vulnerable to abuse) to become a “good” mother and wife.
Is it not the men job to take care of the family …
Through the ages men are providers and maintenaners of the women and families
@TORNADOMAN Southeast Asia and Japan has different cultures, quite. In Japan, they mostly don’t care about who works or not as they think about the money overall for their family and is not seen as a “disadvantage” depending on how the family makes money and also the Govt. having finnancial support for housewifes.
And yes, as you stated the majority of it has nothing to do with abuse via finnancial dependencies so I see it nothing here in Japan but just an ego problem generally. IDK about SEA though as I didn’t grow up in my home country but for SEA, we have a lot of relatives as we tend to have a bigger family to look out for the kids therefore both parents may have a higher percentage to work compared to Japan (Just a speculation)
So I don’t really see the OP’s specifics can fit into any modern Asian cultures.
@iTrisomus Men don’t want marriage either. It’s a huge burden for them to support the whole family since things are getting too expensive. The world changed fast we couldn’t live like the old ages anymore.
If women in Asia are abused, what do you think of women in India Africa and Middle East ? How is population growing there ?
@Ahmed Zaki Khan
No its just Japanese are childish.
They prefer Anime than real human to love with 👌
Falling birth rates are a generational issue.
The cost of having children has skyrocketed. But most importantly, Gen Z don’t see children as necessary for a happy life.
Even if the cost was lowered, Gen Z simply aren’t interested in having children. The reason why governments are failing to raise birth rates is because the leaders are all 60 years or above.
They do not understand the situation and desires of the young generation.
meaning while India, Pakistan and Bangladeshi people.
Let indians and pakistanis to japan and i am sure japan will be dealing with overpopulation 😉😉
Stop having kids.
Great news from a xenophobic, racist country of murderous thugs that may be wiped out by a tsunami at any time … but, hey, make sure you keep putting out anime, bigots
The declining birth is much more severe in neighbouring South Korea and they have the highest suicide rate in the world. Why isnt Al Jazeera reporting on how bad it is in Korea?
Come on they have millions of people. They are perfectly fine. Stop spreading fake news
Good. I can’t wait until the Japanese have disappeared.
They should merge Japan with Afghanistan population will boost 😅
if japan wants child they need some afghans to fill in the void😅
Me, a black man can easily go to Japan and increase their birth rates in a day!!
This is very good news considering 60% of the world population is Asian. I am tired of seeing foreigners being my boss.
A lot of women there and Korea are marrying white men and moving to the states or other western countries is one of the many reasons why
I’m proud of the women.
If you allow more immigration that’ll solve everything. But Japan is such a closed off society that a really like that is hard to make real.
Only socialist policy can bring birth rate up
I don’t want to be that guy but here I go: As someone who doesn’t want kids, I don’t blame those who don’t want kids due to crazy work hours, and other stuff that can bring others a high amount of stress. Countries except people to be fine and dandy when clearly they are suffering to try and support themselves, and families. It’s ridiculous, once these countries birth rates going dangerously lower, it make the countries try and have a piece of mind to actually do better, than what they are doing now to make people stressed out in their daily lives.
Bring peaceful in Japan they increase birth rate enormously in Japan 🤣😂😅😆😁😄😄😀
As an African where our people procreate until there’re no more babies coming out, this baffles me
I believe It’s a good step towards population control cuz over population is the mother of all problems
Only Islam can save Japan …
Yes. Islam can save the whole world.
Italy, Japan, Germany and Spain have similar fertility rates. Why developed countries have low birth rates
They sold their souls for power and wealth.
“Population Collapse”
Money solves this, so simple right?
They put themselves in such a position. How does a country encourage men to work until 2:00 a.m? And not dare ask or take the holidays due to them? Which man will have energy for anything else after that type of overwork ? They need to be honest with themselves about those types of policies and its effects on people. The birthrate will not pick up anytime soon. This is a result of generations of overwork. I honestly think the chinese will have a population boom before them. The chinese are resisting the overwork culture. They are also looking at women outside china like in the phillipines and so forth.
Consequences for not investing in women and their quality of life.