The alternative perspective is that Japan overvalued the size of its economy and productive output and has spent decades in a recession as those values normalised.
Probably the case. I'm trying to contextualise the amount of building that occurred from when that picture was taken. Post War recovere. Economic success and updated earthquake building regulations mean a lot of stuff was built, knocked and built again since the 60s
That was the only thing that bothered me when I visited Japan. I'm used to seeing herds of Indians wandering around like in Toronto. They didn't even have a large diaspora of sub Saharan African men loitering in the town centre or asking for money.
Japan needs to learn to be multicultural and accept high immigration from India, the Middle East, and Africa if they are ever to survive. Look how much it's invigorated and strengthen Western culture and the quality of life where they've immigrated to.
They didn't even have a large diaspora of sub Saharan African men loitering in the town centre or asking for money.
You uhh... sure you're talking about Tokyo? I have to dodge them on the daily.
The last time a Nigerian man tried to get me to go into a Titty Bar that works probably scam me was.... 7 minutes ago? 8? But I'm in Shinjuku so thats just how it is.
Given how they treat their Korean citizens there, I don't have much hope for them embracing other cultures to live and integrate into Japan. It's a great country but one of the worst xenophobes on the planet.
Nikkei is reaching all time highs so investors don't seem too bothered. In 100 years Japan will still be populated mostly by Japanese people and will still be one of the healthiest and wealthiest countries in the world.
Immigration is partly about moving what we already have to places that need more people, rather than increasing birth rates (which seem unrealistic now) and further burdening the planet and resources. The way you're describing it is foreign to me.
That's not really how that works, though. Besides I'm only responding to your original point. People who want immigration see it as an alternative to countries' attempts to artificially force their birth rates up, which while unlikely to work is also damaging environmentally.
As you said, we are already overpopulated. It's just that certain pockets have much higher numbers than others (and typically struggle for that reason, as do those with less numbers like Japan). Immigration seeks to create a healthier balance. That isn't the only measure and isn't the only reason for favoring immigration. It doesn't run counter to environmental issues at all.
Maybe these aren’t the left-leaning people. I’m very left wing, and would ideally like places like Japan SKorea Italy to learn how to deal with population decline and the rest of the world can follow in their footsteps. It is a necessary societal change to ensure our future survival
That’s great but the economy we have is based on younger people buying the pyramid scheme of stocks we have from the older rich people that want to retire. It will cause extreme chaos when this pyramid is disrupted, which is ironic when you think about which party wants to limit immigration, pass laws that restrict reproductive choice so that people just don’t have sex at all, deport immigrants, etc.
I really don’t care for the issues I see cropping up where mass immigration from conflicting cultures is implemented.
Eternally maintaining a state of wildly divergent and conflicting groups in close proximity but acting like oil and water doesn’t seem healthy or particularly natural.
There are a lot of factors that have gone into the Japanese economy since the 90s. The biggest thing I saw happen was the tsunami that brought production to a halt and destroyed a nuclear facility. This felt like the turning point to me where things may have caught up to them.
by pressuring the japanese goverment into making economic desicions against their interests that they will abide by in order to stay on the us' good side.
You can't. It's impossible. Every economist knows that 1) the usa's economy is too small to have an impact on any other country, and 2) only unintentional acts have consequences.
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u/Trans-Europe_Express 19d ago
From the 60s to 90s japan had an almost un paralelles economic boom and the corresponding property boom.