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Uploaded by on Nov 26, 2007

July 2001
Japanese businessmen are forecast to soon be paying up to 75% of their income; in tax, insurance and pensions; and this is already being partly blamed for crippling the Japanese economy.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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  • This video correctly noted that the problem is lack of population growth. But it didn't mention the fact that in Japan abortion is the most common form of birth control - about 300,000 a year. Abortion clinics are almost as common as fast food restaurants. And girls as young as 13 can have an abortion without parental permission. It would be great if adoption would become more socially acceptable there and women would have their babies and find a good home for them. That would help everyone.

  • It'd be useful to at least put in some subtitles.

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  • Many ordinary people simply cant afford to have kids in Japan's highly competitive and very expensive society. In the end Economics is the primary cause of Japan's birth rate decline.

  • Why can they have let the immigrant assimilate in the japanese mainstream and call them japanese? ( solution solved )

    P.S japan have to accept that the world is becoming a multicultural world

  • @kishaba1980 " Its inmigration that made the Japan you know.

  • Who knows what the future will bring for Japan? Obviously we need some foreigner, but replacing ever worker with immigrant is just naive.

  • @JuBiTomislav ever heard of colonization? Google it ;)

  • @kishaba1980 Ever heard of assimilation? Google it. ;-)

  • How sad.

  • NO Immigration!!!!!! This will change the culture in Japan.....it wont be the same again.

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