Japan as a race heading toward extinction

Started by Barklessdog, August 08, 2018, 06:36:28 PM

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August 08, 2018, 06:44:27 PM
Working people to death

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/01/09/commentary/japan-commentary/japans-zero-growth-nightmare/#.W2uNXN9OmfA

That gets us back to the suicides mentioned above. A major scandal du jour is a 24-year-old advertising woman who jumped off a roof. Before leaping, she posted on social media horror stories of working 100 hours of overtime per month and exhaustion. It was a stinging embarrassment for one of Japan Inc.'s proudest names, 115-year-old Dentsu, and rekindled debate about the nation's death-by-overwork crisis. Greater productivity might have saved Matsuri Takahashi's life, and myriad others.

That's not a typo. Current trends suggest that between now and the early 2060s, Japan's 126 million population will shrink 31 percent, while working-age ranks drop 42 percent. Each worker will share the fruits of his or her labor with the ever-increasing ranks of retirees. Without strong productivity, and soon, Katz estimates GDP will fall 28 percent by around 2060.

Barklessdog

#3
August 08, 2018, 06:48:23 PM
Old people stacking up like cords of wood.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/japan-lonely-deaths-the-end.html

With no families or visitors to speak of, many older tenants spent weeks or months cocooned in their small apartments, offering little hint of their existence to the world outside their doors. And each year, some of them died without anyone knowing, only to be discovered after their neighbors caught the smell.

The first time it happened, or at least the first time it drew national attention, the corpse of a 69-year-old man living near Mrs. Ito had been lying on the floor for three years, without anyone noticing his absence. His monthly rent and utilities had been withdrawn automatically from his bank account. Finally, after his savings were depleted in 2000, the authorities came to the apartment and found his skeleton near the kitchen, its flesh picked clean by maggots and beetles, just a few feet away from his next-door neighbors.

uwe

#5
August 10, 2018, 03:47:53 PM
Nuff said sung.



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My plain wrapper baby
Your skin is like vinyl
The perfect companion
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My role is to serve you
Disposable darling
Can't throw you away now
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We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
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Barklessdog

#6
August 11, 2018, 07:56:36 AM
One of Roxy's best songs in my opinion, so weird and shocking back then.

They never had these in the back of comic books when I was a kid!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/japanese-sex-dolls-now-life-like-4040718

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