U Not Gonna Like This

Japan in the throes of baby scarcity
By nevosopelo at 02/11/2006 - 17:56
I was watching the news last night on the telly and I was aghast to see eldearly japanese people who are buying small baby dolls to use them as Grandsons and Granddaugthers. The japanese people are now growing older faster than anywhere else in the world. The birth rate is now so low that toy companies are producing toy babies for the Grans, who are without Grandsons and Granddaugthers, to care for them as if they were alive babys.

It seems that the millionaires club of countries of the world are following suit to this trend, as countries like Italy shows negative growth.

I do not know what the underlying causes are, but I think that wealth and success has distorted the natural proccess of procreation to the point to which people do not have a wish of enjoying family life.

A very selfish style of life.
NEVO


by Major Tom on Thu, 11/02/2006 - 19:14
That is very sad to read about.

I suppose when the generation of elderly japanese people were kids their grandparents were an involved part of their lives. They probably also thought that when they were their grandparents age that they would have grandchildren too.

Alternatively, they could always pull a Madonna and steal a black baby.

by Timocrat on Sat, 11/04/2006 - 02:21

Just last year deaths out numbered births in Japan. Only because Japan isn't keen on immigration does it show what is still worse in countires- like Italy.

In 5O years most of western Europe will have more Muslims than others and will be rearranged accordingly. Japan may have to encourage its birth rate in their over crowded island. European with its hyper-rationalizing deconstrictionist leadership will be gone for sure, though I'm not sure what will be the new order.

When women want to have it all, and think having children is stupid, societies fall. Japan is in much less difficulty than your own European countries, but I guess it is more interesting to look at the neighbours when you see things that tug at the heart strings. Women are always fond of dolls. Please look in your own house, and not avoid the tough choices coming to your states and own characters.

by Tyrael on Sat, 11/04/2006 - 02:42

Italy has very poor birth-rates and not many citizens compared to capacity and total population density.

I think Russia (Russian Federation) has the poorest birth-rates in all of Europe.



by Tyrael on Sat, 11/04/2006 - 02:52

I checked and according to CIA statistics Russia doesn't have the lowest birth-rates in Europe, but it's below the European Union average in 2006.

Germany is the European country with the lowest birth-rate in 2006.

by Mamonaku on Sun, 11/05/2006 - 14:14

Good day!

Nice to meet you all.

While I live in the USA full time, I am a registered citizen on Kyoto Japan, as my wife is a japanese national living in Japan.

According to my male friends on the street, the last thing they are thinking about is making babies. Japanese men simply work too many hours (about 10-12 hours a day, six days a week) to think about doing the nasty.

Sex between Japanese couples is among the least frequent in the world.

Also, many guys are not interested in marriage simply because Japanese women are becoming "Americanized", and feministic.

Jitsuroku Oniyome Nikki (Factual Demon Wife Diary) is a wildly popular drama that portrays a husband being abused by his wife.

http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Jitsuroku_Oniyome_Nikki

While the media likes to spin the story that women are rejecting marriage en mass, while true in some respects, isn't what's really going down.

Men are simply writing off love relationships, marriage, and women in general.