Aljazeero, February 28, 2023
Japanese women are having children later in life worried that motherhood will end their careers.
Tokyo, Japan – Chika Hashimoto, a 23-year-old who recently graduated from Tokyo’s Temple University, is not averse to having a family in the future, but nor is she jumping at the opportunity.
“It is definitely not my first choice,” she told Al Jazeera. “Fulfilling my career and enjoying my freedom is far more important than getting married and having children.”
Why money will not be enough to address Japan’s baby crisis.
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Nowhere in this article is there any explanation of how and why a declining population will be bad for Japan. According to the CIA World Factbook Japan has one of the highest life expectancies in the world.
Japan People 2023, CIA World Factbook
No one claims that elderly people in Japan are poorly cared for.
Right now the world population is 8,045,311,447 and growing as I write.
In 1950 the world population was 2.5 billion.
What was so terrible about having "only" 2.5 billion people?
Back then the average house cost twice the average income. Now it costs several times more.
Japanese women are having children later in life worried that motherhood will end their careers.
Tokyo, Japan – Chika Hashimoto, a 23-year-old who recently graduated from Tokyo’s Temple University, is not averse to having a family in the future, but nor is she jumping at the opportunity.
“It is definitely not my first choice,” she told Al Jazeera. “Fulfilling my career and enjoying my freedom is far more important than getting married and having children.”
Why money will not be enough to address Japan’s baby crisis.
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Nowhere in this article is there any explanation of how and why a declining population will be bad for Japan. According to the CIA World Factbook Japan has one of the highest life expectancies in the world.
Japan People 2023, CIA World Factbook
No one claims that elderly people in Japan are poorly cared for.
Right now the world population is 8,045,311,447 and growing as I write.
In 1950 the world population was 2.5 billion.
What was so terrible about having "only" 2.5 billion people?
Back then the average house cost twice the average income. Now it costs several times more.