Japan is Dead
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Japan society is a corpse taking its last few steps. Their birth rate is trash. Their traditionalist culture will cave very soon and begin the mass importing. The Japanese people will genocide themselves within 50 years.
Japan will outlast many western countries.
A declining birthrate is arguably better than an exponentially increasing birthrate.
Japan doesn’t bring in immigrants to replace their declining population.
Nah Korea is in more dire situation than Japan is. Korea will die before Japan.
Oh ok that's good.
They won't import, they're banking on ai. Plus they'll see what's happening in Europe (especially France and Sweden) and see mass immigration won't work anyway. At worst they'll go through a crash just like most countries go through every century and then come out of it japanese.
Their foreigner employment system works quite well. Come to work, make money then go home once your visa expires. They even have a lottery that decides how long a renewal on a work visa is and marrying a native doesn't grant citizenship, even children's citizenship is jus sanguinis so no anchor babies.
Recently, I read Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical strategist. He suggests that much of Japan's need for workers can be taken care of with a few strategies:
De-sourcing: Manufacturing plants are built in the country you plan to sell in, employing their people to do that work, while you keep the high end jobs (engineering, executives, etc.) in your own country.
Outsource manufacturing to Southeast Asia and South America (which have a both growing populations and the resources they would need)
Investment in robotics to make the most of each Japanese worker.
I don't know if this solves all their problems, but it's enough for Zeihan's one word summary of Japan's future is "Jefe". Of course, he's also predicting that China is in a much worse position that most people think.
Investment in robotics to make the most of each Japanese worker? They're at least doing this much, even to the point the severely disabled are being employed on the regulars.
https://www.euronews.com/2021/06/22/cafe-staffed-with-robots-remotely-controlled-by-disabled-workers-opens-in-tokyo
That sounds like a real interesting book. I'll have to check it out. Problem is those foreign workers being able to keep up with the quality. You would at least need Japanese Managers or something over there to oversee things.