Jim Penman argues Japan's population decline is irreversible on current trends. He claims the Japanese population and culture could largely disappear within 200 years, with the land repopulated by people from the mainland.
Is the Japanese population going to die out? On current trends, the Japanese population will disappear. It'll be gone. Basically gone for 200 years. There'll just be a few million left. What'll obviously happen is that the land won't be empty because it's fertile and you'll get people moving in from the mainland. But the Japanese culture, religion, language— gone.
Rising mental illness and falling birth rates have the same cause, it is this.....
