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11-19-2010, 06:53 PM

I heard that at the rate that was current a year or two ago, the population of Japan in the year 3000 would be 3.... 3 people....

Generalizing, men overwork and don't have the time or desire to be intimate with their spouse, so procreation rates aren't the same as other countries.

It is said women are paid less and seen as temporary labor because they are expected to leave their job when they become pregnant. Therefore, women try to get ahead in the workplace by not getting pregnant or by being single altogether. This also reduces birth rates.

But these are just observations of a gaijin and are not intended to be facts.
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