Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents

Re:Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with ... by roenxi on Friday October 02, 2020 @07:03PM (#24667911)

My basic argument is Japan (might have, I did see a few convincing counters in other parts of the thread that were convincing) too many people for the amount of land they have.

Your counterargument is that they didn't have a problem in 1980, when they had less people and the same amount of land. I can't disagree with that, but it isn't relevant.

> Many, many other countries don't have a lot of natural resources and are not having these problems.

They have the 3rd largest economy in the world. It goes US, China and then Japan. 30% higher GDP than the next contender, Germany. If there are any non-linear economic effects at all between size and labour market, Japan is going to find them first.

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Re:Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with ... by brazzy on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:17AM (#24670970)

Japan has a smaller population now than they had in 1980, and a much smaller working age population:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan

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Re:Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with ... by roenxi on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:57AM (#24671150)

You may have misread the numbers slightly; population of ~117 million in 1980 and a population of ~ 125 million today.

And the chart in that article shows that they basically stopped having children in 1980 which would be consistent with a "running out of resources" hypothesis as a root cause. If they hit a wall in economic carrying capacity circa 1980 that chart would supporting evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan

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