Japan Ageing Population Homework:
Causes of Japan’s population decline and aging population:
- The world of Men and women becoming disconnected due to increase in the
popularity of geek culture, the traditional values men hold of women in the
household and workplace as well as the lack of male initiative to date Japanese
women.
- The lack of females having children as a result of the traditional and extreme work
ethic in Japanese culture as well as the rate of female unemployment after giving
birth (65%).
Impacts of this decline and ageing:
- Reduction in the size of Japanese workforce because of less young people
- Increase in expenditure towards caring for older generation – Japan’s debt.
- Lack of young people means that here is a lower population to tax and gain finance
from to fund for the care of the older generation.
- Less marriages
Policies to tackle the ageing population:
- Encourage immigrants to move to japan for employment in sectors such as
healthcare and engineering.
- Social policy – encourage men and women to have families through changes in
traditional outlook of work culture
a) How Japan is trying to tackle its population decline and ageing population:
- “Abenomics” policy which aims to reverse more than a decade of deflation and
stimulate economic growth by printing new money to encourage expenditure. This
will tackle the country’s debt issues regarding care for the elderly.
- Japan is slowly introducing immigrants into the economy to tackle their ageing
population by making visas easier to access and providing employment for
immigrants in sectors such as healthcare and engineering. However, due to Japan’s
homogenous society, many have opposed the idea saying that it will negatively
impact the culture that Japan has managed to protect and globalise the city by
bringing in foreign brands.
b) The successes and failures of the approaches:
- Abenomics policy does not directly attack the issues facing a rising population as it is
not an economic concern but rather a social concern and therefore financial
incentives such as printing new money to encourage expenditure will only benefit
Japan’s debt issue rather than the wider problem facing their population. However,
by printing more money and encouraging more economic activity within the smaller
workforce, Japan can generate more funds to care for their ageing population whilst
they figure out a plan to directly tackle the issue. Thus, stopping them from
becoming financially dependent on other countries.
- By introducing more immigrants into the country, Japan will be able to create a
larger workforce thus tackling the debt that it has accumulated from caring for its
ageing population as well as a younger population that will balance out the age of
their overall population and possibly even introduce a rise in birth-rates as
immigrants chose to have families of their own.
Causes of Japan’s population decline and aging population:
- The world of Men and women becoming disconnected due to increase in the
popularity of geek culture, the traditional values men hold of women in the
household and workplace as well as the lack of male initiative to date Japanese
women.
- The lack of females having children as a result of the traditional and extreme work
ethic in Japanese culture as well as the rate of female unemployment after giving
birth (65%).
Impacts of this decline and ageing:
- Reduction in the size of Japanese workforce because of less young people
- Increase in expenditure towards caring for older generation – Japan’s debt.
- Lack of young people means that here is a lower population to tax and gain finance
from to fund for the care of the older generation.
- Less marriages
Policies to tackle the ageing population:
- Encourage immigrants to move to japan for employment in sectors such as
healthcare and engineering.
- Social policy – encourage men and women to have families through changes in
traditional outlook of work culture
a) How Japan is trying to tackle its population decline and ageing population:
- “Abenomics” policy which aims to reverse more than a decade of deflation and
stimulate economic growth by printing new money to encourage expenditure. This
will tackle the country’s debt issues regarding care for the elderly.
- Japan is slowly introducing immigrants into the economy to tackle their ageing
population by making visas easier to access and providing employment for
immigrants in sectors such as healthcare and engineering. However, due to Japan’s
homogenous society, many have opposed the idea saying that it will negatively
impact the culture that Japan has managed to protect and globalise the city by
bringing in foreign brands.
b) The successes and failures of the approaches:
- Abenomics policy does not directly attack the issues facing a rising population as it is
not an economic concern but rather a social concern and therefore financial
incentives such as printing new money to encourage expenditure will only benefit
Japan’s debt issue rather than the wider problem facing their population. However,
by printing more money and encouraging more economic activity within the smaller
workforce, Japan can generate more funds to care for their ageing population whilst
they figure out a plan to directly tackle the issue. Thus, stopping them from
becoming financially dependent on other countries.
- By introducing more immigrants into the country, Japan will be able to create a
larger workforce thus tackling the debt that it has accumulated from caring for its
ageing population as well as a younger population that will balance out the age of
their overall population and possibly even introduce a rise in birth-rates as
immigrants chose to have families of their own.
