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this is quite a hard problem for Japan to solve tbh. it's a beautiful country, however originally they're not immigrant friendly, you can't even get a citizenship back then.

Because of the working culture, many of the younger generations are reluctant to have family, apart from that the stagflation is getting worse and hardly solved.

I'm not really sure what to do as a leader of Japan as well tbh, hopefully they find out what to do before all is too late

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The workforce that should be technically literate that would have been hired in the 90's, suffered that whole decade and couldn't get hired because the bubble popped and the companies kept on current workers and didn't hire. So now they have a lot of really old tech illiterate workers and younger ones that have to do the technical work (basic computer work for the old workers) and suffer long hours due to inefficiencies. They need to off load any older worker who can't keep up and that is also keeping the younger generations locked down to working 12 hours a day and modernize.

Giving people more free time might help along with ecouraging families through social programs

From the (few) Japanese people I know, the workplace culture can be grim - long hours and crushing hierarchy. It sounds all consuming. Time is very much lacking.

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