Sunday, January 3, 2010

Japan's Decreased Birth Rate

JAPAN: Wooing Women as Birth Rates Drop By Suvendrini Kakuchi

TOKYO (IPS) - Gender equality has been a distant dream in Japan but a drastic national population decline is forcing the government to take steps to help women - if only to encourage them to have more children.

''The yellow signal has started flickering,'' said health minister Jiro Kawasaki, late December, referring to the low birth rate and the consequent threat to the national economy. The government now acknowledges that the consequences of declining birth rates -1.29 per woman- can be addressed partly by increasing jobs for women and expanding the retirement age to 70 years from the current 65 years. (Source IPS: Read more)

Ham: Sorry about the article's date. I read the news on a newspaper and couldn't find an online one. So replaced with the closest article, but no difference anyways because these decreasing birth news is an annual thing. Kinda funny and ironic actually. The country has an ever decreasing birth rate and yet it is the country synonymous for many oriental 'exports' such as shown below:

Unmentionable high-quality videos from the infamous AV featuring many young innocent females which are very familiar to some of you dudes out there... Nurse? Lolita? Teacher? Maid? 2 nurses and 1 teacher? You decide...

Perhaps some anime if none of the real life females/males sate you...

And what about some of those extremely uh... creative things you never get on traditional Western mainstream entertainment... seriously I don't get tentacles but oh well...

As an outsider I don't see the correlation where there is supposed to be correlation. Japanese women say they feel insecure (financial wise perhaps), the government provides support to bear children, and then the stuff displayed above. If this was the fire science concept where the 3 things must be present: fuel, oxygen, heat, to start a fire. Yet there's no fire here.

Or I could see it from a wrong perspective where all the NSFWs above are caused by the refusal to procreate that left the males depraved. I don't know. It could be anything... urgh I got Syntax error just trying to figuring out how to link and come up with a hypothesis for this issue...

But one thing is clear though, from a HRM perspective, the human resource will either be 80-100 years old telemarketers OR automated robots and artificial intelligence with an IQ of 250 that handles your call to a Japanese firm's customer service in 20 years time... oh no and that means the adult industry will also be... uh whatever moshi moshi!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

here's your answer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26FOB-2DLove-t.html?pagewanted=all