Japan needs more babies

She can take you on a wild ride :P

lol on wait thats my job gotta show her what AWD is all about :D :mrgreen:

Japanese population to start shrinking in 2006

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan said it expects its population to start shrinking in 2006, a year earlier than previously thought, and called for urgent measures to persuade young people to start families.

At current rates the population will peak in the new year and halve to 60 million people by 2100, a Cabinet Office report said.

"The warning lights are flashing," said Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Jiro Kawasaki. "There are many things that have to be done."

The report said Japan still made child-rearing too much of a burden for women, such as by failing to provide flexible maternity leave. It also said a growing number of young people were struggling economically and not thinking of having offspring.

The report urged the central and local governments to give better financial support to families with children, particularly for their medical expenses, and to build more child care centers.

Faced with the urgency of the problem, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in October for the first time appointed a minister in charge of coping with the dwindling population.

"The government needs to support child-rearing families by distributing public funds fairly and equally," said the minister, former ambassador Kuniko Inoguchi.

The report contrasted Japan unfavorably with other developed nations. Citing 2001 figures, it said Japan devoted 4.2 percent of its Gross Domestic Product to support child-rearing, compared with 8.5 percent in France and 11.2 percent in Sweden.

The average number of children a Japanese woman has in her lifetime has been steadily decreasing and marked a new record low of 1.2886 in 2004, with many young people seeing families as impediments to their lifestyles and careers.

The health ministry said the government expects the number of deaths to outnumber the 1.07 million births this year.

Historically homogeneous Japan has so far rejected wide-scale immigration, accepting only foreign workers with particular skills.

The declining population fuels fears for the pension system as a smaller workforce supports a mass of pensioners.

"Regional communities will lose livelihoods without young generations," said an official of the Cabinet Office, which produced the report on Friday.

A government panel earlier this year proposed incentives for companies to promote temporary workers to the status of full employees and called for the normal retirement age to be raised to 65 from 60.

It also proposed that Japan accept more foreigners and bring more foreign exchange students into the workforce, besides promoting immigration by workers of Japanese ancestry.

But this month, the government changed course and announced tighter screening of potential immigrants of Japanese origin after a Peruvian claiming Japanese ancestry allegedly murdered a seven-year-old girl.

Anyone care to help for this cause :mrgreen: :hehe:

Saito_Hajime wrote:

Anyone care to help for this cause :mrgreen: :hehe:

Via indirect donation? No. :say_no:
Via direct donation? Yes! :say_yes:

ahochaude wrote:
Via indirect donation? No. :say_no:
Via direct donation? Yes! :say_yes:

What do you mean by indirect and direct donation? :sweat: :bonk:

Saito_Hajime wrote:
What do you mean by indirect and direct donation? :sweat: :bonk:

Let's just say that if Aho helps alleviate the problem personally, there will be Aho clans in all parts of Japan. :rofl:

Saito_Hajime wrote:Anyone care to help for this cause :mrgreen: :hehe:

I don't mind doing my part. ... or at least, to practice making babies. :naughty: :beaten:

dochira wrote:
Let's just say that if Aho helps alleviate the problem personally, there will be Aho clans in all parts of Japan. :rofl:

Man, just imagine that one half of the population of Japan came from Ahochaude's roots, that would be cool :beaten: :hehe:

tabana wrote:I don't mind doing my part. ... or at least, to practice making babies. :naughty: :beaten:

Does making babies still need a practice? :bonk: :mrgreen:

It might be less exhausting to just practice having one, than to have one. At least with practice, you don't have to wake up in the middle of the night, because someone's crying. :hehe:

tabana wrote:At least with practice, you don't have to wake up in the middle of the night, because someone's crying. :hehe:

Your wife can take care of that things :beaten: :hehe:

:rofl: :rofl:
Yeah, you're right! :hehe:

Good thing I don't have any kids or wife, because they'd kick my ass right now. :hehe:

It's though to have kids when you're man and single. :beaten: :bonk:

tabana wrote::rofl: :rofl:
Yeah, you're right! :hehe:

Good thing I don't have any kids or wife, because they'd kick my ass right now. :hehe:

It's though to have kids when you're man and single. :beaten: :bonk:

the only kids you should have are the ones in your sig. file...

"the smoke and the brew....they loves you" :hehe: :hehe:

I think my parents are thinking the same thing too. :beaten:

Maybe I should adopt a 20 years old japanese girl and go Woody Allen. :hehe: j/k :bonk:

tabana wrote:I think my parents are thinking the same thing too. :beaten:

Maybe I should adopt a 20 years old japanese girl and go Woody Allen. :hehe: j/k :bonk:

nice, brutha....just make sure she she looks better than woody's stepdaughter...straight nastiness

if she looked like ai otsuka....i'd be really impressed :) hehe.

cross breeding counted? ;)

littlemissfab wrote:cross breeding counted? ;)

dunno but inbreeding doesn't....

I think I might have a few red neck genes. :hehe:

And, yes, I'll choose her cuter. You're right Woody's stepdaughter is ugly.
I wonder if Ishihara Satomi is looking for a new dad. :hehe: :beaten:

tabana wrote:I think I might have a few red neck genes. :hehe:

And, yes, I'll choose her cuter. You're right Woody's stepdaughter is ugly.
I wonder if Ishihara Satomi is looking for a new dad. :hehe: :beaten:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Tu_triky wrote:

nice, brutha....just make sure she she looks better than woody's stepdaughter...straight nastiness

if she looked like ai otsuka....i'd be really impressed :) hehe.

damn..if she look anything like ai otsuka, then you won the lottery, ok...not quite, but she a hella lot better than woody's girl. :bonk:

^^ the whole woody allen debacale was just wrong..

qilver.. sent you a pm...

qilver wrote:

damn..if she look anything like ai otsuka, then you won the lottery, ok...not quite, but she a hella lot better than woody's girl. :bonk:

woody could have done better if he followed his name...and went out with a tree...