Japans Ageing Society

Before this time, large families paved the way to a prosperous life, and the government no longer encouraged previously encouraged behaviors, such as infant genocide, delayed marriages, and abortions, in order to keep the population at a necessary minimum. The government instituted plans for both social and economical improvements. With the discouragement of births outside of marriage, women were encouraged to achieve higher degrees of education, which directly caused its purpose; later and fewer marriages. With aided increases in income, improved social security and pensions, and decreasing rates of infant mortality, the need for large families decreased and brought the birth rate to an average of 1.38 for each woman in 1998, and 1.32 in 2002.(Asiasource.org-Special Report: Japan’s Aging Population

Challenge for its Economy and Society)

The article mentions possible economic changes which could have a negative impact on Japan’s goal. With a decrease in economic growth, due to a possible shortage of labor supply, a related article suggests a possible cure for this problem could be a steady increase in immigration. (Asiasource.org-Special Report: Japan’s Aging Population Challenge for its Economy and Society) This related article also mentions a new pension system, in which the current workers of today’s Japanese society pay for the pensions of the retirees of today. Both articles mention raising the age of retirement to 65 and providing incentives for women in the workplace.

After reading this article and some other related articles, I learned about how the Japanese government has attempted to impact the demographics of their society. The article also brought to my attention the negative impacts that are possible if Japans ageing society and negative growth rate are not evenly weighed out. Based on all the information from the article, the government is stepping in and their actions are positively impacting the situation, but it will be a slow and long process.

The article concludes with a confident outlook on the Japanese government overcoming this issue, some time

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