The Daily Wire reports that Japan's birth rates have hit a new record low despite a $25 billion program to encourage women to have children. Per the article:
Japan’s population plummeted for the 14th year in a row in 2024, declining by nearly 900,000 people despite massive government spending aimed at encouraging childbirth.
New data released on Monday by Japan’s Internal Affairs Ministry shows the number of Japanese nationals declining by 898,000, marking the steepest annual decline since authorities began keeping records in the 1950s.
The article also notes:
The country’s fertility rate in 2023 stood at just 1.2 expected births per woman over her lifetime, far below the 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population, reflected in Japan’s child population declining to a record-low 11.2% of the population, 13.8 million, after a decline of 343,000 last year.
Buy why aren't the Japanese having children? "Surveys show many younger Japanese are reluctant to marry or have families, discouraged by bleak job prospects, rising living costs outpacing salary growth, and corporate cultures incompatible with dual-income parenting." And:
Ryuichi Kaneko, demographer and professor at Meiji University, told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper: “I believe one of the reasons Japan’s declining birthrate has become especially severe is that, in the postwar period, the country built a society that prioritized economic activity to an extreme degree.”
I've noted before that the only populations in developed countries (and even many "third world" countries) that have fertility rates above replacement levels are those that are highly religious. Not just "kinda religious" but with high levels of religiosity. It may be a matter of hope in the future, feelings of duty, or just faith in a higher power, but whatever it is, religiosity is the key. And, in this regard, I would note that unadulterated capitalism does not care about God or religion anymore than does communism. What we need is a religious revival in the West.
But this is where the Devil is in the details, for what better way to ensnare men than for the Devil to drive us into a misery so great that people will beg for anyone to save them, even if it turns out to be the Anti-Christ.
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85% tax rate for women of childbearing age. End no-fault divorce. Problem solved.
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