Why is Japan’s population declining?

it has a nothing to do with Japan’s population declining.

Every right thinking person knows the REAL reason for the declining population is the fact that we let women out of the kitchens and into the working world instead of pumping out babies.

Here’s an excerpt from an article for G4′s Wired For Sex regarding The future of sex in the modern by looking at Japan.

“It’s hard to believe a country with so many people living in close proximity has a population crisis on its hands. Yet younger generations are choosing to forego having children until much later in life. No place is this more evident than in the Japanese countryside, where the population has dropped precipitously over the past several decades.

There is a price to pay for life in the city. Both sexes experience tremendous pressure to maintain their careers. Children are often seen as a hindrance. “A 30-year-old woman does not want to quit her job, lose her spending money, not have money to spend on clothing, etc.,” sexologist Kim Myung Gan says. Instead, young single women “want to be single and have a good time.”

Some maintain that the problem with such a paradigm is that eventually there won’t be enough people in the working segment of the population to support the senior generation during their retiring years.

Japan differs greatly from much of the Western world in terms of its cultural attitude toward sex. Take, for example, the practice known in Japan as “enjo kosai,” or compensated dating.

“Enjo kosai is often abbreviated in Japan as enko. Basically it’s the ‘sugar daddy’ system,” says Erik Gain of dating site Asoboo.com. “It’s not prostitution, at least not in the sense of traditional prostitution. What usually happens is that older men go out with younger girls. It wouldn’t be acceptable to the Japanese to accept cash for that type of relationship, so basically the men give the girls gifts.”

A study found 10 percent of men in Japan paid for sex at least once a month.

Pregnancy eventually catches up with many enjo kosai girls. Japan has one of the highest abortion rates in the world. For girls under 19, the number of abortions rose to 46,500 in 2001, almost double the number in 1995.”

http://www.g4tv.com/wiredforsex/features/44899/Japan_Wireless_for_Sex.html

I’d say abortion is only a factor, however, Cyberstrike makes a good point.

Hey, at least the Japanese are doing something with aborted babies: eating them…

PROCEEED WITH CAUTION!!!!

http://believe-or-not.blogspot.com/2007/08/japanese-eating-dead-babies.html

I agree that this may not be the most professional article on the effects of abortion on population,or even as an argument in opposition to abortion-for the purpose of argument is to transfer from ignorance to knowledge,and this article hardly provides such convincing evidence for the case of Japan. However, it is fair to say that such a relation exists-Russia being the better example.
Notwithstanding poor articles like this, I agree that abortion is wrong, and that the institution of abortion internationally is a tragedy-for it is always wrong to deliberately kill an innocent person.
I am Catholic, and it is unfortunate that such Christians leave a negative impression on some individuals, like Karusu-kun. It may be true then, that the “only unanswerable question against Christianity is Christians”-meaning, bad and sad ones. Nevertheless, every Christian-and the case against abortion-should not be dismissed as being moronic or delusional.

The article has a point though. While abortion may not be the sole cause of Japan`s rapidly shrinking population it certainly must be considered as a factor, irregardless of ones views on it, when over 36 million babies have been aborted since 1949.
http://www.ipss.go.jp/syoushika/tohkei/Popular/P_Detail2008.asp?fname=T04-21.html&title1=%87W%81D%8Fo%90%B6%81E%89%C6%91%B0%8Cv%89%E6&title2=%95%5C%82S%81%7C21%81%40%90l%8DH%94D%90P%92%86%90%E2%90%94%82%A8%82%E6%82%D1%95s%94D%8E%E8%8Fp%90%94%81F1949%81%602006%94N

It is true that much contention exists in whether an embryo is a person because if an embryo is a person, then abortion is wrong, because it would be deliberately killing that innocent human being.
Then, what is an embryo? What is a fetus? What is a teenager, or an adult?
These words-embryo,fetus,teenager,adult-are nouns that come from adjectives. Embryonic human:embryo. Fetal human: fetus. Infantile human:infant. Childish human:child. Teenaged human:human. These are stages of development of the same entity,which is a person.
When does the individual life of any mammalian species begin? When the genetic code is complete. When instead of the haploid ovum and the haploid sperm, you get the diploid embryo. Cells replicate immeasurably, a pattern emerges, and gradually organs develop. Granted,there is nothing like a human brain in the embryo.However, a human embryo only has the potential to be human; a human embryo grows a human brain, and an ape embryo grows an ape brain. So, it is a human embryo even though it does not yet have a brain.
If we gradually become a person, and if it is okay to kill somebody without all their systems in place, and to be consistent with this reasoning, then there should be no objection to killing an eight-year old child whose reproductive systems are still immature.
Then, the embryo must be human-and the process of growth and development does not begin at birth, it begins at conception. Part of this takes places in the ninth month in the womb, and rest occurs in the years outside of the womb. There is no break during this process.

Immigration being identified as a method to solve such problems appears to be a dirty word in Japan…the good old politics of fear

In every country, there are pros and cons for immigration as a method to solve such problem, what made you think Japan differed in this regard?

Because 5th grade school reports on whales are also part of peer review academic forums…

It’s just common sense. Why wouldn’t you cite the source and point out that what you posted here was someone else’s work?