{"id":559,"date":"2009-04-25T08:04:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T16:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-04-22T21:04:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T05:04:50","slug":"what-happens-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/04\/what-happens-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens to Japan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/04\/13\/impossible-dreams\/\">Jared Diamond<\/a> pondered on why society chose the path to demise.  Biologically, all life forms exist to propagate their genes.  If a society, without external interferences, enacted a deed that lead to its extinction, such decision would be highly unnatural.  Sociologically, a community will be strange to choose a path that lead to poverty, slavery, irrelevancy, or other suffering for its offsprings.<\/p>\n<p>Why would Japan, currently the 2nd biggest economic entity in the world, chose to do such thing?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/23\/business\/global\/23immigrant.html?hpw\">New York Times reported<\/a> that Japan is essentially evicting foreign workers.  It is one of the countries least friendly to foreigner (GaiJin).  You can live in Japan for decades, raising a family, speaking fluently, making good money, paying taxes, but not allowed a citizenship.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http:\/\/images.nationmaster.com\/images\/pyramids\/ja-2010.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"width: 450px\"><\/div>\n<p>Not that this small country is teeming with youngsters.  Japan suffers an aging population for years.  It has an almost upside-down population pyramid: the result of having the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/4065647.stm\">lowest birth rate<\/a> in the world, and living for a long, long time.  Japanese live to the average 81.6 years, 4.5 years longer than Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see.  An island country that is aging, without much natural resources, used to rich life styles, and expeling immigrants.  Wouldn&#8217;t this lead to the eventual collapse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Diamond pondered on why society chose the path to demise. Biologically, all life forms exist to propagate their genes. If a society, without external interferences, enacted a deed that lead to its extinction, such decision would be highly unnatural. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/04\/what-happens-to-japan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}