Raising the fertility rate to 2.07 without national changes to child-forward policies and without immigration (immigrants by and large have higher rates of childbirth) that leads to citizenship is impossible.
The US and the UK both show growth in the report's chart. Why? Immigration, immigration, immigration, immigration </Baller>.
japanese society has hundreds and hundreds of years invested in the idea of the pure centre and the polluted periphery, clean inside and dirty outside, and this model was internalised into the machinery of the japanese state at the time of the meiji restoration and became essential to the operation of its ruling class. 1/2
modern japanese biopolitics excludes immigrants from the question of "the population issue" because the current ruling elements of japanese society cannot justify their own existence or governance unless their idea of japanese society, juxtaposed against the impure "outside", is replicated into eternity.
okay if you wouldn't mind, maybe, just speaking about it into a microphone while i listen and take notes, that would be lovely, just lovely
my masters was on the ethnicity, nationalism, and cultural responses to transnational migrants in the UK and the USA and i abandoned a PhD on the same topic in japan because, you know. life happens. but the interest remains.
FWIW, I think the ruling class is losing on this issue. People are not stupid. My neighbors have been nothing but welcoming, because they can do basic math--and the math is it is impossible to repopulate towns like this with children from the elderly who still live here or robbing peter to pay paul by poaching native Japanese of childbearing age from other areas.
@jamesrg Oh, btw, the pure centre and the impure periphery?
That shit isn't even Japanese. It's Neoconfucianism and was stolen from the Chinese.
Literally, Neo-Confucianist scholars (this would be the predecessors to where my masters studies started, so think 1600s and 1700s) basically said "Naw, China isn't the middle kingdom. Japan was the real middle kingdom the whole time!"
Japan has always been really, really, REALLY good about bringing stuff from the periphery into the centre and then claiming "ACKSHUALLY, it's ours!" All the way up to KFC and cake for Christmas.
Stolen from the British, via the Imperial Navy from its training exercises with the Royal Navy in the time around the Russo-Japanese war, who themselves stole it from India.
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