IF JAPAN WANTS TO GROW IT'S POPULATION, THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES
AND SOME CULTURAL BELIEFS MUST CHANGE.
Entire villages in the countryside are ghost towns. In one deserted village, an old woman makes life-size rag dolls with painted faces, yarn hair and puts them throughout town - in a store, the post office, etc. You can buy a home in Japan for $500. All the people are in the cities, working to live: https://www.criatives.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/9-hours-capsule-hotel-07.jpg
Incentivize companies to relocate or open throughout the land, especially the countryside.
The empty villages will reopen and thrive and so will the Japanese people. People don't want to start a family with financial stress and a bleak future. Companies could have on-site daycare, improved working conditions and pay, find ways to help their employees.
‘Karoshi’, or death from overwork, is an ongoing issue within Japan’s extreme work culture.
Improve the economy. Stop the cultural attitude to work too much, not take vacations, leave after the boss, drink with the boss, working so late you need to sleep in a capsule hotel, etc. Stop with the attitude that men are kings and women are there to serve them. I have even seen that with Japanese people born in America. Why would an educated woman want to hook-up with a man to become his slave?
I saw a Japanese woman on TV taking her toddler to daycare at daybreak on the back of a bike. After work, she picked up her child with the bike in the dark. Who would want a life like that? Make it gratifying to find a soulmate and have a family.
Kindergartens are for children whose mothers do not work. There are only two kindergrtens left in the small city I live in because everyone has working parents. My wife stayed home until our daughter was nearly 4. She was at the right age when she was craving friendship and even had an imaginary friend. My wife works at a nursery school and sees the 2 year old children who cry for their mamas every morning as they are dropped off. We made sure that this was not going to be the case with our girl.
IF JAPAN WANTS TO GROW IT'S POPULATION, THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO SUPPORT FAMILIES
AND SOME CULTURAL BELIEFS MUST CHANGE.
Entire villages in the countryside are ghost towns. In one deserted village, an old woman makes life-size rag dolls with painted faces, yarn hair and puts them throughout town - in a store, the post office, etc. You can buy a home in Japan for $500. All the people are in the cities, working to live: https://www.criatives.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/9-hours-capsule-hotel-07.jpg
Incentivize companies to relocate or open throughout the land, especially the countryside.
The empty villages will reopen and thrive and so will the Japanese people. People don't want to start a family with financial stress and a bleak future. Companies could have on-site daycare, improved working conditions and pay, find ways to help their employees.
‘Karoshi’, or death from overwork, is an ongoing issue within Japan’s extreme work culture.
Improve the economy. Stop the cultural attitude to work too much, not take vacations, leave after the boss, drink with the boss, working so late you need to sleep in a capsule hotel, etc. Stop with the attitude that men are kings and women are there to serve them. I have even seen that with Japanese people born in America. Why would an educated woman want to hook-up with a man to become his slave?
I saw a Japanese woman on TV taking her toddler to daycare at daybreak on the back of a bike. After work, she picked up her child with the bike in the dark. Who would want a life like that? Make it gratifying to find a soulmate and have a family.
The woman has her child in the nursery school because she has to work because life is so expensive that both she and her husband have to work.
That's right.
Kindergartens are for children whose mothers do not work. There are only two kindergrtens left in the small city I live in because everyone has working parents. My wife stayed home until our daughter was nearly 4. She was at the right age when she was craving friendship and even had an imaginary friend. My wife works at a nursery school and sees the 2 year old children who cry for their mamas every morning as they are dropped off. We made sure that this was not going to be the case with our girl.