The number of children born in Japan in 2025 fell from a year earlier to 705,809, the fewest since data became available in 1899 and hitting a new low for the 10th consecutive year, health ministry data showed Thursday.
Japan already has fairly low immigration numbers. Currently they’re at like… 4 million, or about 3% of their total population. Contrast with America having around mid-50 million, or about 15% of their population being immigrants.
Immigrants are absolutely not the problem for Japan. A weak yen, high cost of living, work culture that glorifies basically never being home to the point folks were dying (Look up Karoshi.). Heck, probably some culture norms shifting on top of that, as it becomes more acceptable to just not have kids at all, which friends get because, well, gestures broadly
Japan already has fairly low immigration numbers. Currently they’re at like… 4 million, or about 3% of their total population. Contrast with America having around mid-50 million, or about 15% of their population being immigrants.
Immigrants are absolutely not the problem for Japan. A weak yen, high cost of living, work culture that glorifies basically never being home to the point folks were dying (Look up Karoshi.). Heck, probably some culture norms shifting on top of that, as it becomes more acceptable to just not have kids at all, which friends get because, well, gestures broadly