Japan is not about to become an American-style melting pot, and this solution alone would be inadequate. As the annual World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings got under way in Tokyo last week, Japanese leaders had to confront an unfolding demographic disaster. Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security Research recently forecast that by 2060, the country will have lost nearly one-third of its 2010 population of 128 million, and just half of this smaller population will be between 15 and 65 years old, the most productive age group in any economy. To Read More.....
My Take - There is a reason that I stuck this in today; and the reason has nothing to do with the economic, cultural or social implications of all of this for Japan. It has to do with population. The greenies are always screaming that there are too many people in the world, in spite of the fact that we know the world can support far more than the seven billion living today. I stuck this in to demonstrate what happens in successful, modern advanced societies. The numbers drop!
If you look at the world you will see that the large families are in poor backward nations. I recommend reading Bjorn Lomborg's book Skeptical Environmentalist to see his analysis on this issue. As for Japan becoming an American type melting pot. It won't happen!
Japan is largely a monoculture; which is it's strength and it's weakness, but never-the-less....they don't care.....they like their uniqueness and it is my view that they feel diminished by outsiders. RK
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