>A growing number of towns and villages are hollowing out, with nearly four million homes abandoned over the past two decades, government data released last year showed.
Is this large enough for city / town footprints to start shrinking?
>High living costs, stagnant wages and a rigid work culture deter many young people from starting families. Women, in particular, face entrenched gender roles that often leave them with limited support as primary caregivers.
Hear me out: it takes a lot of pressure for a long time for people to choose annihilation and now the same government that these people believe (rightly or wrongly) has driven them to the point of choosing annihilation is asking them to instead believe that it's there to help them and make their lives better. It's going to take at least a generation to gain that trust back.
Actually real estate in Japan has always been cheap, because they just build new houses, torn them down few decades later and build them new again. Nobody sits on a house like on an investment which is main reason why housing all over the Western world is expensive.
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Hear me out: it takes a lot of pressure for a long time for people to choose annihilation and now the same government that these people believe (rightly or wrongly) has driven them to the point of choosing annihilation is asking them to instead believe that it's there to help them and make their lives better. It's going to take at least a generation to gain that trust back.
Japan's population was about 44 million in 1900, it is 123-124 million now.
A decreasing population poses major challenges but they are far from "annihilation" or becoming "extinct"...