Stern@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoJapan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new lowwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square263fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down11
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minus-squaremeowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoCultural norms around marriage and work-life balance are strangling Japan’s future. Good article, minus one for not exploring innovative or radical solutions to the crisis. 🐱🐱🐱🐱
minus-squareturnip@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agoIts monetary policy that has done it. The lost decade and all that, caused by the central banks via loose monetary policy. Had they let prices correct normally it may have been fixed, instead zombie corporations subsist on the back of the government.
Cultural norms around marriage and work-life balance are strangling Japan’s future. Good article, minus one for not exploring innovative or radical solutions to the crisis.
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Its monetary policy that has done it. The lost decade and all that, caused by the central banks via loose monetary policy.
Had they let prices correct normally it may have been fixed, instead zombie corporations subsist on the back of the government.