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Essay On Japan Population

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Japanese population is shrinking, currently more deaths than births
Every year, 400 primary and secondary schools are converted into elderly day care centers.
1 out of 5 centenarians in the world lived in Japan.
There are more elderly diapers sold than baby diapers.
Japan is shrinking and the situation is more complicated as its seems.

Japan is known for being the second world economy after the United States but Japan is also sadly known for having the lowest fertility rate and the highest aging population in the world.
The demography crises Japan is now facing is said to be unprecedented
Fertility rate, that is to say, the number of children born by each woman during her lifetime, remaining very low, even if Japanese population stands …show more content…

Furthermore, it is seen as a bad thing to give a baby to someone else, hence the lack of child care infrastructure. Long working hours discourage women to search for high paying job.
One of Abe’s government’s policy was to encourage women to go back to work after having one child but it’s taking into account only part of the problem.
The high cost of studies makes some young married couple reluctant about having a child. Education in Japan being extremely costly from preschool to university.
Even for married couples the task is not easy, taking into account the increasing number of sexless couples (more than 50%), the increase of work insecurity (40% of employed people are non-regular) which doesn’t provide a good family environment and gives an image of “non-reliable” person.
Some issues are specific of Japan, such as “Parasite Single” introduced by the sociologist Masahiro Yamada, designate people is their 20s 30s, still living with their parents, unmarried and most of the time unemployed. Without mentioning “Otaku” or “Hikikomori” staying at home, most of the time correlated with depression and social phobia. Also, some trend such as “herbivore” a good thing not to be “dependent on romance”, remain very common and are consuming Japanese society from the

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