Japan's population crisis reaches tipping point | FT Film
3.1M views · May 23, 2025 · News & Politics
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@itmeboh · 1 year ago
It's almost like there's this radical idea that if it gets too expensive to literally live, maybe just maybe, it's not affordable to grow a family. This isn't rocket science.
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@CaptainGrimes1 · 1 year ago
Who knew long hours and expensive living makes raising a family impossible 🙄
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@tildatiger · 1 year ago
An entire video about people not having babies, without interviewing one, single woman about it.<br>Amazing 😑
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@tmmehedi · 7 months ago
Foreigner living in Tokyo here House renting and food is so expensive so i think it's very hard to raise family here 😢
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@liaminwales · 1 year ago
It's amazing to see people aged 70/80 doing sports, highlights how the UK has failed on public health.
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@nicollokhumalo2826 · 1 year ago
I dont think there's any other place in the world where 70 and 80 year olds play full contact rugby. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmdujC0MUKA&t=306">5:06</a>
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@joew2450 · 1 year ago
A bit maddening how the presenter says in one moment people are not having children due to work pressure and rent being too high. In the next sentence, "the ONLY WAY" to stop population decline is immigration! <br>WTF?!? How about force rents down and tackle the reasons why people don't feel able to have kids!
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@KWend-f4n · 1 year ago
Depends on a point of veiw about quality of life.<br> Many think living like a bunch of sardines in a can is no way to live at all. As such population NEEDS to decline.<br> Now , that said our economies are definitely not set up for this to happen without a bit of short term pain.<br> But another way to veiw Japans situation is that they are one of the first to enter into this , which means they will inevitably be the first to recover and I suspect that will be a prosperous era indeed.
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@Burke3427 · 1 year ago
Not a surprise when people are stressed they don't have kids.
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@水晶幻影 · 1 year ago
The last sentence is key. Japan has been rich before getting old. Other countries going similar path may not enjoy the same outcome as Japan does now.
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@neshirst-ashuach1881 · 1 year ago
"A number equivalent to the population of Australia" is 27 million people for those of us who prefer actual numbers to Bus lengths/Everest heights/ Australian populations as units of measurement.<br><br>Its around 22% of Japans current population.
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@letit023 · 1 year ago
It is beyond wild how the politicians and even the media cannot understand what's going on. It like the cost of living hasn't gone up or even food, or even making a decent income to support a family isn't a crucial play to this.
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