Economy Japan's GDP (current US$) is smaller than it was in 1994.

[MicroBrew]

There’s a lot of factors going in to housing prices and a low birth rate which is what much of the world is stuck with right now are seeing unprecedented housing prices.

When your population is old, everybody is in a position to buy a home which leads to inflated prices, and their isn’t a demand (or workforce) for affordable housing. Everything has to be super comfortable (expensive) and you can afford that when the median age is over 40 and everyone has 20+ years experience in the workforce and making a lot of money.

But these old people can pass the homes onto their kids or have the kids live with them. I've been reading news that more and more young folks (20s and 30s) are living with their parents (here in the US).

 

[PrinceOfPain]

They're also very dependent on Chinese and Russian products and commodities to keep their country afloat. The recent resignation of their government relates to this.

Shit like this is what Westerners should probably be paying attention to when making their geostrategic decisions. But your leaders don't pay attention to anything, and your citizens jizz themselves over Evangelion fantasies whenever Japan is brought up.

ETA: When'd @ElKarlo get banned?

 

[panamaican]

shes just gas lighting. They do this a lot. Its why they always have never ending causes where for example they can always complain that America is racist or sexist.

That's an empty argument and a copout. Rather than legitimately defend your claim, you're saying that someone else is gaslighting us. Sounds like projection to me. Seems more like there isn't this "pressure" you're alluding to and whenever presented with someone wishing there actually was pressure, you're going to saying they're pretending so they can trick us.

Sometimes it's simpler than that. There isn't a pressure for women to become careerists. The simple reality is that things cost money and if women want things (clothes, a car, a place of their own to live) they need to work, just like men. Otherwise they are completely dependent on some 3rd party (husbands, parents) to buy it for them.

To that end (buying things), women have had jobs forever. Secretaries, teachers, maids, scientists, etc. The only thing that has changed is that women can now climb the ladder in the companies they work for, just like men could. And it shouldn't surprise anyone that once the barriers to women maximizing their potential were reduced or removed, many women chose to maximize that potential.

If we want women to focus on their home lives and their children then the work world has to change to make that possible. Because women have always wanted to advance their careers, it was the social barriers that prevented that, not an internal unwillingness to do so.

Last point since people often don't know this. In Medieval Europe, many households didn't want have their wives raising the children. They were considered too flighty to be left in charge of kids. Men raised the kids, either in the father's trade or the wealthy would hire tutors to teach the kids what they needed to know. Ideally, the kid was fostered out to the trades before they turned 10. And even then, women worked. Either their own jobs or they managed their husband's businesses. Because even then...people needed money to buy the things they needed.

 

[balkanbomber85]

Japan, or the japanese people, are the weirdest folks ive ever encountered.

Their obsession with perfection is way too high, like, just an example. According to many/most japanese, fish tastes best if you dont remove fish scales in a classic way but very carefully cut them off, which is a fkng hard and time intense process. And at the end, no person alive could tell a difference in taste but they think they do and for that they will pay a high price.

This small and stupid example can be transferred to most things they do, like martial arts training or, in this case, finding the other opposite. Every good manager or leader will know that perfection is an ilusion and you are mostly more than good with like 95% achievement, the rest of this, meaning those 5%, will mostly cost you much more time and will have little to non benefit.