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This is rather a distribution/allocating problem, because nowadays productivity is high enough to produce enough output for everyone. It is just that the factors labor and capital have to be rebalanced, in cases where the population is growing, stable or shrinking. The case of Japan is extreme though, but same for S. Korea.
Japan is already the easiest country to legally immigrate to, and there are already plenty of Chinese residing in Japan.
I personally know a few naturalized Japanese citizens born in China. Back to the days when South Korea was still a developing country, there was a significant amount of Koreans immigrating to Japan too, but not anymore.
Japan is definitely more friendly to legal immigrants than any other industrialized country. However, the language barrier and cultural difference are holding people back from moving there.
If fellow posters have watched the decade old Japanese TV show "Soko Ga Siritai", one episode focused on the Korean immigrants in Japan.
It talks about the systematic discrimination against Korean immigrants, even though they are born in Japan. For example, unless they change their Korean name to Japanese name, it is hard for them to get a decent job in Japan.
I dont think there are enough Koreans or Chinese interested in settling, integrating into and reproducing in Japan to make it worth considering, regardless. It's easier for them to make a fruitful life in their own home culture than in Japan these days.
Basically all the more developed Asian societies, i.e. Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea, face the same problem as Japan faces -- population decline.
South Korea population will peak in 2035 and then declines quite rapidly.
But South Korea and Japan face a unique problem. Their society is monolithic and their population is homogeneous. They tend not to accept foreigners assimilated into their society.
To some extent, Korea is even more rigid than Japan.
Basically all the more developed Asian societies, i.e. Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea, face the same problem as Japan faces -- population decline.
South Korea population will peak in 2035 and then declines quite rapidly.
That's what you get when you only have ****e children policy and crap education.
Other places are already better than Japan, Japan is not a paradise.
Earthquakes are unheard of in Korea and occur much less in China.
Japan is decling while Korea and China are rising.
No, the 4 Asian dragons do not have a population decline problem as there are people moving in from other places. But they and Japan have low birth rates.
Take Hong Kong for example, a lot of people moving in include children born outside of HK to a HK parent, spouses of a HK person, legal immigrants with no relative in HK, illegal immigrants etc. For Singapore and HK, they are cities with a tradition of immigrants arriving with large numbers of residents who were not born there.
In South Korea and Taiwan, there are still some immigrants, mainly from China and Southeast Asia.
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Originally Posted by Ian_Lee
Basically all the more developed Asian societies, i.e. Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea, face the same problem as Japan faces -- population decline.
South Korea population will peak in 2035 and then declines quite rapidly.
But South Korea and Japan face a unique problem. Their society is monolithic and their population is homogeneous. They tend not to accept foreigners assimilated into their society.
To some extent, Korea is even more rigid than Japan.
Honestly, most Chinese and Koreans do not like the Japanese and most Japanese do not like the Chinese and Koreans. Settle in a country where the people do not like you? And China and South Korea are doing well and improving. Chinese and South Koreans have better future than the Japanese. HK and Macau are already better than Japan.
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Originally Posted by 415_s2k
I dont think there are enough Koreans or Chinese interested in settling, integrating into and reproducing in Japan to make it worth considering, regardless. It's easier for them to make a fruitful life in their own home culture than in Japan these days.
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