Geeter Mckluskie comments

One in 24 Babies in Japan Born to Foreign Parents as Support Efforts Grow

Most foreign women in Japan are of birth giving age. Japanese women, since entering the workforce in greater numbers, are putting off having children until they're in their 30s. One in 24 sounds about right.

Japanese Women Now Having First Child on Average at 30.9

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01363/

1.8 million of foreigners in Japan are Asians from China, Vietnam, and South Korea,

How is this significant in any way?

A cursory look at a world map will tell you why that is. What prey tell is the significance of your statement?

Are you suggesting that "all Asians are the same" ergo...Yeah...well...more foreigners...but they're Asian. WTF?

subsidise farming and incentivise agricultural education and training among Japan's youth

They do that already.

Not to any significant extent. I work at Tokyo University of Agriculture's Third High School. There are no agriculture programs outside of standard biology lessons. We are an "agriculture" based institution!

No practicum that includes farm stays.

No "incentives" to take up farming. No guidance towards that end. No "subsidised" i.e. free tuition for those entering the field of agriculture in our university. Nothing of the sort...just the name "Tokyo University of Agriculture"...

This is a crisis and all the government wants to do about it is increase the foreign population to get their quick fix of more immediate tax revenues...for their personal slush funds, while selling Japan's future collapse down the road, when all those jobs become obsolete due to AI and mass automation. Thereby, creating two problems to solve one. So Japan will have its ageing demographic issue...along with the glut of unemployment caused by importing labor that will have become redundant with in 2 decades at minimum.

So no evidence, no trial, no crimes. Is this what the US has become? A banana republic?

No visa, no citizenship...entering the USA without legal permission is a crime

Under U.S. law, illegal entry, as defined by 8 U.S.C. § 1325, is a crime, punishable by fines and imprisonment, with harsher penalties for subsequent offenses and for illegal re-entry. 

How do you like those bananas?

Plus Japanese youth dont want to work in agriculture...observation based on travel here over a few decades in many areas.

They would if ungodly expensive farm equipment was subsidised and they were given plots of land...observation based on teaching at a high school of 1500 kids since 1988...and raising 5 kids of my own...as well as coaching youth ice hockey for 20 years. If nothing, those kids are Spartan in terms of effort.

They are already well behind their goals for deportations and will never attain them, it's mathematically impossible at this point. Just take the L.

That L is for America to take...in terms of homelessness, crime and a burden on the public coffers

Japan's native depopulation and aging still accelerating,

And it will continue to accelerate as those in previous generations in which families had 3-5 kids passes on. Considering the fact that 50% of current jobs will have been rendered obsolete due to AI and mass-automation within the next two decades at minimum a reduction in population is prudent at this point in Japan's history. When the population levels out to a sustainable level in this new digital, automated economy, there will be an organic shift in the birthrate. Currently, the population is organically levelling out to a more sustainable level.

Add in all the abandoned agricultural land, and I see a problem where immigration might be a solution.

A better solution would be to subsidise farming and incentivise agricultural education and training among Japan's youth

Less than 3% more work need to be done to attract the wealthy and business minded individuals.

The wealthy make up less than 1% of the population...good luck with that plan

on a flight between the UK and Australia is held by Aussie cricketer David Boon. He downed 54!

That's just getting started for baseball player Wade Boggs who once drank 107 beers on a flight from New York to LA

that nuisance actually destroys democracy, not NHK.

NHK is a gaslighting wing of the LDP. That citizens can't comment on its website when their tax dollars pay for NHK is telling. Keep the public misinformed and compliant while we raid the public coffers and peddle piffle about the need to increase immigration...for our slush fund windfall while providing jack squat to the public...ie.daycare, food self-sufficiency, post secondary education for our youth, training for whatever jobs there will be when 50% of current jobs will have been rendered obsolete within the next 2 decades at minimum!

Cool...hope it comes here on IMAX

Yes

What’s with all the knife crime?

No guns

Glad he's OK...so he can keep exposing NHK as a gaslighting propaganda wing of the LDP

It's a start

Beats Starmer threatening boots on the ground and support from the air...hastening WW3

Bot front page news. Gawd why is baseball treated like worship. It adds nothing to society.

Leisure is not nothing. Do you think it better for "society" to do nothing but work? Do you not have a hobby?

I get that you don't like baseball...and that you want the world to know. But to say it adds "nothing to society" is to be a tad naive about what a having a healthy society entails...and FYI...all meaning is fabricated...reglious...sports worship...movies...art...literature...social mores...relationships...all grounded in the fabrications we concoct to give life meaning...figure it out

Pinning your hopes and dreams on a celebrity to this extent is not healthy. Its fine to enjoy what they do, whether it be baseball, singing, acting or whatever, but this kind of hero worship sets a dangerous predicent for stalkers and nutcases.

It's just as or less dangerous than religious worship. At least Ohtani is real and not a bronze age myth that people to this day strap explosives to their children to hasten their fantasy paradise entry.

This is weird behavior. He's a baseball player with the personality of a wet paper bag. He doesn't want to be friends with you, he wants to get on with his work. The national obsession with this guy because he has reached a level of success overseas is becoming creepy.

No different from say Taylor Swift fans lining up to get a glimps of her. People on here comment as though this is their first glimps of fandom.

I'd like to see him get off the plane, blind drunk and start abusing people.

THAT...I'd like to see...just for kicks

If there is such an abundance, the domestic price should be far more reasonable.

There's not "an abundance"...there is a "plan" to increase production

> the need to enhance productivity in addition to expanding exports, noting that geopolitical risks and a decline in domestic farmers have destabilized food production and supply in the country.

"Joint custody" often means the Japanese mother having to remain in the foreign fathers country in order to see her kids. This often means the mother having little to no support, being insufficient in the language and as a result being dependent on welfare to survive. In such cases, I agree with the mother taking her kids back to Japan where the mother has family and is more familiar with the daily duties regarding the upbringing of her children.

Britain looking for support after Starmer's irresponsible "boots on the ground, support from the air"...threatening WW3 remark. Back far off from that alliance Japan...stick with the US

They are still producing things that the people consume, so the solution you give (eliminating them as unnecessary) is not justified.

What you've classified as a "solution" is not. What it is is a description rather than a prescription.

The more companies there are...the more workers required. Fewer companies require fewer workers overall.

Too many companies will result in labour shortages.

The point is, some companies will reject me simply based on nationality and not on competency.

That's a huge supposition...which unverified I'll take with a truckload of salt.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/01/14/economy/bankruptcies-rise-last-year/

In your own example it would be as if every team still had full stadiums every game, that in no way would mean it needs to have less teams, 

Over 10,000 companies went bankrupt in a single calendar year. Many claiming labour shortages or the rise in materials and labour costs as the reason.

Too many teams

Which again can easily be explained as just doing as they are being expected to do

The survey cited was regarding what young Japanese women want to be

FYI, Japan has higher % of women in workforce today than any G-7 country = so much for 'housewife' theory.

One in three young Japanese women wants to get married and be a full-time housewife, a government survey has showed, despite growing calls for increased female participation in the workforce.

The poll, which quizzed more than 3,000 people aged 15-39, found 34% of unmarried women did not want to work when they settled down.

https://japantoday.com/category/national/1-in-3-japanese-women-want-to-be-housewives-poll

That would come with low business, not low number of workers,

Imagine you wanted to start up a baseball league (25 players per team)

and there were 500 pro level baseball players to choose from. That's enough for 20 teams.

If there were more teams...you'd have too few players.

Japan needs fewer teams. If and when they need to expand...they will...organically. Currently Japan is organically downsizing in an era in which 50% of current jobs will have been rendered obsolete by AI and automation within the next 2 decades...at minimum

Yeah the same ones who attacked safe zones, hospitals and schools most certainly would be so low they would cut off water or electricity

Yes...the same...human beings regardless of political or cultural interests...are equally as brutal

The category here being "human"...Not Jewish nor Palestinian

From what I learned from insiders, many Japanese nationals are relocating to countries like Malta, America, Canada, Vietnam, Malaysia, and other locations due to higher salaries. Sometimes 3 times a much as they can make in Japan. With a balanced work life experience.

As of October 2023, 1,293,565 Japanese nationals were living abroad for at least three months, including those with permanent residence. This is a decline from the peak of 1,410,356 in 2019. 

The number of Japanese living abroad has been declining for four years in a row.