http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/gatebox-azuma-hikari-virtual-assistant-news/ (http://www.digitaltrends.com/home/gatebox-azuma-hikari-virtual-assistant-news/)
Watch the video :japancry :japancry :japancry :japancry
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This is the saddest shit I've ever seen
http://www.businessinsider.com/japans-not-the-only-country-worried-its-population-will-go-extinct-2016-3
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/16/national/social-issues/japan-becoming-extinct/
let's keep making waifu shit
I should ask my japanese pen pal this
Those projections are a joke, come on... They assume that present conditions stay the same for hundreds of years. Yes, fewer people have children, but that doesn't mean the dicline is eternal. People aren't going to stop fucking and having children because waifu pillows and VR porn exists. spoiler (click to show/hide)
Oscar, where are you when we need you most? :stahp
Education, traditional gender roles chaning, overall wealth (and the fear of losing it), urbanization (as the first article states), etc. play a much bigger role. Government policies play a role too. Most industrialized nations are in the same boat, only most can fall back immigration to fend off population decline. Read up on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility