Peter's Perspective:
Day 1 continued

Two Options for the Japanese


dinner convo continued with the observation by an expert friend of casilda's:

the incontrovertible fact is that the japanese are getting older and the younger ones are not matching the rate of attrition, somewhere around 300 thousand a year. by 2050 or earlier, what was once 120 million will be down to 80 million mostly aging people. therefore:

Option 1: they don't do a thing and watch their population dwindle.

Option 2: they bring in new blood from other countries like south east asia, or china or korea.

i believe just by superficial knowledge of the japanese that they will never ever choose option 2. these people i believe would rather commit national seppuku rather than dilute their precious japanese blood with chinese or korean genes. there's also the superiority thing. then of course the idea that the once conquered peoples will exact demographic revenge on their one time oppressors.

therefore i believe that sometime in the future, some old japanese guy or most likely, a lady, will turn off the lights and bid everyone "sayonara" then jump off the cliff.

a couple days later though i thought there might be some other options albeit wild and totally off the wall. one obvious one of course is that the young ones who leave the country to spend time in foreign lands and learn foreign ways will come back and effect a change. this of course will never happen as the establishment institutions, and social and cultural dictates are just too well entrenched for any sort of unorganized takeover by the youth. then because of a lack of better things to think about, i came up with some really wild options.

wild option 1:
all young people under 25 leave the country. any new ones being born in the next 25 years is shipped out to live in foreign lands. when everyone who is left behind in japan has finally died off, all the foreign born and expatriated japanese come back home. then they create a new culture free of the incredible strictures of the previous japanese culture. they can take what's best, and dump what was most restrictive, thus inaugurating a new world culture in japan.

wild option 2:
ship all young people to mars or the moon. the japanese are perfectly hardwired for such tough and restrictive endeavours as colonizing a place. they can live with very little resources, can handle, nay, enjoy cramped conditions, and can repeat the same jobs and information transference, with hardly any deviation, over and over again even 20 generations into the future.

so yeah, this option should be on the table. meanwhile, they can bequeath the japanese islands to the filipinos, a people who they brutally conquered but who bear them no ill will nor are they hatching vengeful plans like i'm sure the chinese and koreans are doing. don't believe me? heck even with all the forced prostitution the japanese extracted from the philippines, thousands of filipina women stream into japan today to work there in the world's oldest institution without being forced into it. see? it's a win win for everyone.