Japan's tax laws get in way of more women working full time

Re:Japan's tax laws get in way of more women working full time by fiblye on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:47AM (#19337414)

Not a day goes by without western media conglomerates publishing an article about how the Japanese are going extinct and need mass immigration now.

I see some local news talking about some minor labor shortages with convenience stores and whatnot, but opening up BBC or CNN you'd think Japan is on the brink of absolute collapse due to being underpopulated with only 120 million people on a tiny, mountainous, barely arable archipelago.

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Re:Japan's tax laws get in way of more women working full time by SolaceQuantum on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:58AM (#19337482)

"Not a day goes by without western media conglomerates publishing an article about how the Japanese are going extinct and need mass immigration now."

This isn't the cause of two-income households because Japan is quite broadly one-income households...? This is almost entirely irrelevant to two-income household discussion. (I'm not decided personally how I feel about it, merely pointing out this specific comment is making 0 sense to me)

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Re:Japan's tax laws get in way of more women working full time by swebs on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:09AM (#19337568)

The parent comment asked, "Who's complaining about falling birth rates?" and he answered that specific question.

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Re:Japan's tax laws get in way of more women working full time by fiblye on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:05AM (#19337539)

I was specifically replying to the comment about falling birth rates.

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