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Re:Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Thursday May 23, 2019 @03:47AM (#19989469)
All population data for the last century disagrees, and no magic is needed to explain why: the cost of raising children in modern society is so high and the child mortality rate so low that there is strong societal pressure to have less children. Sure, some fringe groups can resist this in the same way that the Amish resist electricity, but this will not be mainstream. Even the Haredim are having less children than they used to:

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5439005,00.html

Re:Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration by coldtea on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:17AM (#19992536)
That assumes both the cost will remain the same (or a factor), and that children mortality rate will continue to be low, neither or which are a given.

Add a couple climate catastrophes and wars for resources, and we can see the landscape in 2100 or 2200...