Japan population to shrink by one-third by 2060

May I ask a question? Aside from the population crisis, why is everyone making a big deal out of this? So Japanese men aren't sex-crazed animals and the women aren't hyper sluts. I see no reason to criticize the people simply because they are not guilty (or so it seems) of wild promiscuity. If this is true, I say good for them. That just makes them the better of us.

As for the population issue... teenagers asi
de I am more worried about the adults. It is good that the younger people aren't engaging in wild sexual activity but... this seems to imply that married adult couples are also refusing to have sex and/or children. To me, that is far more worrisome than a few abstinent teenagers...

That's good news, guys! I wish all countries could say the same! Too many humans!

Whales and Dolphins can't be happier.

The US would simply fight about the problem in D.C. until the consequences overtook us. The Japanese will work together to fix it; as they always do.

Is that factoring in the people who will die from radiation effects?

Wish it would happen Worldwide. It's happened in Mexico. They are in the U.S.

I'm pretty sure that the whole planet will be down by a third by 2060.

No more condoms and how to smoke weed classes to begin next Monday.

I'm curious as to where all these off the wall posts come from? I know there is that segment of "angry white men" who rant about liberals, but I'm beginning to think the unemployment rate is so high because so many of these posters are too mentally ill to hold a job. The way they spout off, who would want them in the work place? Obviously, they would not be team workers and who would let them get near a customer?

Smart country, the rest of the world needs to start doing this NOW!

We hear so much about the population explosion and how bad that is, and now we hear about population decline and how bad that is. At what point did our global population figure become "perfect" so we know when to be stable? We don't, of course. It's in human nature to think that no matter what is happening, it must be bad.

They have robots that make baby noises so that the old people can pretend they have relatives.

What?? Hang on, what happened to the end of the world in 2012??

The problem starts with the fact that 40% of Japanese women never get married. Kids out of wedlock is quite rare there. The one's who marry have the same number kids as American women...

More Sushi for me.

"Pension programs, employment and labor policy and social security system in this country is not designed to reflect such rapidly progressing population decline or aging," Noriko Tsuya, a demography expert at Keio University, said on public broadcaster NHK. "The government needs to urgently revise the system and implement new measures based on the estimate."

Translation: "Your taxes are going up big-time." But that will tailspin Japan's economy into another lost decade or most likely, worse.

of course, it's women who are carrying the child; even parthenogenesis species have that rule

hey!! can Philippines move on your country?? were overpopulated for about 110,000,000 registered Filipinos..

Just bring in some blacks and some Muslims and your population will EXPLODE.

USA needs to be leaner. it would do well to drop to 200 million. less mouths to feed, less gasoline TO IMPORT. less burden to support. a lower population would help the world. less energy to heat people. less overall food demand. china could drop half a billion and india, too. all of africa needs to pare half a billion and quit killing the land and helping the sahara expand.