Ageing Economy - Japan

january 2005
Japan's population is shrinking faster than any other developed nation's. Hostility towards immigrants is preventing it welcoming in the foreign workers who could revitalise its economy.

Already many industries are struggling to find workers willing to do dangerous or demeaning jobs. Foreign workers could fill these positions but many Japanese distrust them. They blame immigrants for the rising crime rate and worry they will dilute Japanese culture.

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[pimpdadysuperman]

Man this is why when Japan faces a tsunami, many people like to celebrate.

Japanese stuborness will lead to their decline and their extinction. It's a globalized world and though you can't have uncontrolled immigration, you do at least need some of it.

They are living longer lives and having fewer children. The reality is that they haven't perfected their robots and the only alternative is immigrants.

But they can die an it'll be their fault. So that's alright.

[kynismos]

Japanese prefer harmony to diversity.

[ADAMYESHOMO]

Bshs

[ADAMYESHOMO]

Bshs

[ADAMYESHOMO]

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[ADAMYESHOMO]

I love how the japanese teenagers are lisning to avril blahh blahh

[pimpdadysuperman]

@NewDivineWind Pride goes before destruction. The future is not fixed and alternatives must at least be considered. Look if you want to wait for the future and see what happens then by all means. Let's see how many Japanese you can recall to fill the labour shortage.

Let's see how a country with an aging population and a labour shortage fares in a globalised world with regional competitors. ta ta.

[NewDivineWind]

@pimpdadysuperman Those robots are prototypes for the future Mr.pimpdady, not something they even thought of using at this time effectively. The robots are supposed to be up to the job, but are a vision into the future. I am Japanese, I have been to Japan many times. Many of those times was in the countryside where population decline is most evident. But the Japanese are very prideful, and will not import workers. Harmony>Diversity

[pimpdadysuperman]

@NewDivineWind Are you for real? You don't get to berate me for low taste when you have videos of Call of Duty: Black Ops. It doesn't come as a suprise that someone with your tastes would use words like "retard". Let's make this clear that you were the first one going onto character assasination.

The bottom line is these robots aren't up to the job yet and they have an aging population.

[NewDivineWind]

@pimpdadysuperman Of course I know about those robots. Those are pathways in to our future not some last ditch attempt to deal with an aging population. Of course if a country makes a prototype anything, the OBVIOUSLY think that it will be profitable from the start. I know the Japanese economy is in decline, it has been that way for 22 years, Mr. "pimpdadysuperman" with a backround image from the movie dodgeball. That points to wisdow and not a retard. BTW I am being sarcastic.

[pimpdadysuperman]

@NewDivineWind For heavens sake. Type in Japanese robot nurses and you'll see what I mean. Do some damn research.

What's more at their economic loss is offshoring jobs and losing their industries. Again, if this hasn't elluded you by now, but economies are all artificially sustained with the use of external inputs.

[pimpdadysuperman]

@NewDivineWind I am saying that the Japanese were hoping to make advancements in robotic so that they could have taken care of their elderly, but they sure as hell haven't perfected it yet. In a global competitive world with all the love of chepa stuff and the free market. The choice is to either offshore jobs and the home nation gets less whilst the foreign nation gets it better, or immigration where the immigrants would be pumping money back into the system and paying taxes.