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That sucks but... as long as people have kids it will continue. But isn't Japan already over-populated like too many people per area? This may not be a bad thing because it won't be as crowded and it will take a long time before everyone is gone.

It'll be alright smile soon at least 100million will be able to have kids at least. 4/5 can soon have kids.

thats nit very smart because the 87 million will be OLD, which means non-egible to have children.

Well... the men can still have kids.

But I guess... but still... the world is over-populated. It won't hurt to have some go down. I know it is here in Canada. The sooner the population goes down the longer the younger generations have to live with materials. Don't forget how materials are descreasing due to the demand of many people.

I mean if the now generation has a kid or 2 or 3 than that's good, and the new generation can so it's all safe. A few people or a million out of 6 billion isn't that big a deal. In fact if 1/4 of the world's population went down there wouldn't be that big a deal.

That may sound mean but I mean before Japan reaches zero, it will be long after we're all dead. Like all countries are going down, it's because the baby boomer era is going dying away. Instead of looking negatively at all our countries population slowly diminishing, we should see this as good. More room, more jobs, more materials will still be available longer. That is a good thing even though the deaths of people is bad. But this is inevitable.

The seniors won't double necessarily also. People will die. Just that population and the now 40-65 year olds were born during the baby booming time which was because of the war many more children were born which over-populated countries. Life will just resume to what it was like before that but it will be better. Just maybe with jobs there may be a higher need for employees but still, maybe our jobs pay will increase too.
Just think of it like something that's been stretched for a while so that it can't shrink or return to its original size.

But this just means some places may need to close down and other jobs will be filled. At least important jobs will stay. Like with bookshelves at a library. You weed out the damaged ones and organize them and you make room and empty space in all the shelves but then you move the books over to fill the shelves with space and eventually some shelves will be empty but then you can fill them up when you get more books.

That may make no sense but I mean it like, this can be a good thing.

I remember reading an article about this in USAToday.
They said that couples aren't having enough children to keep up with replacement rates.
The article was titled "No Sex Please, We're Japanese" stare

Basically, the economy of any capitalistic nation is dependant on the working class being replaced at an equal or increasing rate. So decreasing birth rates is bad. (People who keep saying decreasing birth rates in over-populated Japan is a good thing just don't understand economics.)

good one. 3nodding

Yeah, in highschool I had to study that... It seems that with the raise of individual behaviours and sanitary improvements, the Japanese government has to face more and more old people, and less births...
It's scary, but the same thing is happening to the rest of developed countries as well, even if the examples are less shocking.

The thing I'm worried about is that when my generation (people in their 20s) will stop working, the government won't be able to give them money because there won't be enough young people working... (sorry, completely off topic xd )

I know that in the US, the birthrate is also dropping. People here are also having fewer children. However, I don't think our population is dropping. We get immigrants from other countries to help supplement our population and keep it up. Many of our citizens (and laborers) come from Mexico. The funny thing is, is that we're trying to keep these Mexicans OUT of our country. It doesn't make sense. Because our citizens are having fewer children, our population would be theoretically dropping, and we need some way to replace those people, and also, because Mexicans are willing to do many jobs that the average American would turn their nose up at. These jobs are essential, like planting and harvesting crops. So...Why do we want to keep these people out, when in reality, we need them for both labor and population?