To destroy a country, you don't have to fight a war. Who would have thought that Japan, which sold home appliances and cars all over the world and was known as the "economic giant", is now stuck in place and unable to move. It is not because it is defeated by others, but because it is slowly "wilting" by itself. There is no smoke or artillery fire, but it has almost exhausted its former momentum.
Main source: (China Youth Network-lack of endogenous motivation, Japanese economy falls into a "strange circle")
Japan, this country, these years are like being dragged by something to the leg, wanting to move forward but not make the effort.
Looking back a few decades ago, home appliances and cars made in Japan traveled all over the world, and the prosperity of Tokyo made Americans feel hairy when they saw it. Who would have thought that they would end up in this situation now?
When it comes to fighting, Japan has never experienced war since World War II, but its predicament is more difficult to slow down than being hit by a bomb.
The question comes down to the root, and it’s itself a little “drop”.
The biggest headache is that people are getting older and fewer.
The number of elderly people in Japan has risen horrendous. 36 million people over the age of 65 account for nearly 30% of the country's population. Silver-haired people can be seen every few steps on the street.
The old people are insured by the young people who are currently working.
But young people themselves are living a tight life. Newly graduated college students get 200,000 yen a month, while many elderly people can get 150,000 yen alone in their pensions.
Can young people be balanced?
More troublingly, the total population of Japan has declined for 14 consecutive years, with only 1.2 billion people left last year, and the share of the working age group is only 60%.
Factories are short of people, nursing homes are short of nursing workers, and even those who deliver couriers are dissatisfied.
This kind of population collapse is more difficult to save than the economic crisis.
The pension hole is getting wider and wider.
Countries spend 10% of their GDP annually on pension funds, which is higher than in many countries.
Young people have to pay taxes and insurance for half of their salary, and it is tight to raise children. Who wants to have more children?
The government has no choice but to push the retirement age to 70. Old teachers occupy the positions and young people have no way to promote.
Intergenerational contradictions are getting tighter and tighter like strings: the elderly feel that they deserve their pensions, while the young people feel that they are too tired to carry the whole society.
Economically it is worse.
Japan's GDP has slipped from the second place in the world to the fifth place, and its global share has dropped from 10% to 4%.
Last year, it was clamoring for recovery, but the first quarter of this year experienced negative growth.
Manufacturing PMI index for months in a row below the 50th edge, factory machines turn slowly, and orders rarely pull.
The most striking is that the automotive industry Toyota, Honda sales in China fell by 30 percent in the half-year, and the first quarter of this year car exports were also surpassed by China.
The once proud "handicraft spirit" was struck by its own enterprises: Toyota, Mazda manipulated safety data, Kobe made steel forged ...
When the speech collapsed, customers turned to Chinese-Korean companies.
The industrial transformation is more gradual.
Early in Japan, the hydrogen energy vehicle, patents saved a bunch, hydrogen production can be expensive, storage difficult, people do not buy bills, last year only sold 10,000 units.
On the other hand, China electric cars are running everywhere, and the Japanese master stared at them.
The semiconductor industry is more depressed, once accounting for 30 percent of the global market, now there is one percent, and you have to look at the American face.
The government gritted its teeth and spended money on AI and robots, but how can it fill the hole in traditional industries in the short term?
The depreciation of the yen makes insult to injury.
Now it costs 160 yen to change a dollar, compared with 75 yen more than ten years ago.
The prices of imported energy and raw materials have soared, and the trade deficit has snowballed. Last year, the deficit was 5.3 trillion yen.
The cost of imported parts for small and medium-sized enterprises has doubled, but the money earned from exports cannot make up for the gap.
People go to the supermarket obviously feel the price is high, but the wages do not rise, and the day by day is shrinking.
Fukushima's nuclear wastewater emissions are a hit.
The government said it met the safety standards, but when China and South Korea banned aquatic products, fishermen's catch was cut in half, and the price of fish dropped to cabbage money.
Even if the test reached the target, the consumer's heart responded, the Japanese aquaculture sign was dusted, and the coastal town was cool as Ghost City.
These problems are intertwined: fewer people → poor economy → the pressure on young people is greater → they are more reluctant to live → the burden of retirement is heavier.
It's not that the government has not worked hard. It has done a lot of elderly care robots and AI care, but the deep-seated structural diseases are difficult to eradicate.
The national debt is up to twice the GDP, and the resistance to reform is heavy, and the prime minister, such as the head of the cabinet, is assumed, and this year's growth is still estimated to be only 0.4%.
Japan is like an old car in the dirt, the parts are old, the fuel tank is empty, and the driver has changed a few rounds and has not opened up.
It reminds the whole world that it doesn't necessarily require artillery shells to destroy a country. When the society is old, the industry is old, and people's hearts are scattered, the decline is quieter than imagined, and it is more difficult to turn over.
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Main source: (China Youth Network-lack of endogenous motivation, Japanese economy falls into a "strange circle")
Japan, this country, these years are like being dragged by something to the leg, wanting to move forward but not make the effort.
Looking back a few decades ago, home appliances and cars made in Japan traveled all over the world, and the prosperity of Tokyo made Americans feel hairy when they saw it. Who would have thought that they would end up in this situation now?
When it comes to fighting, Japan has never experienced war since World War II, but its predicament is more difficult to slow down than being hit by a bomb.
The question comes down to the root, and it’s itself a little “drop”.
The biggest headache is that people are getting older and fewer.
The number of elderly people in Japan has risen horrendous. 36 million people over the age of 65 account for nearly 30% of the country's population. Silver-haired people can be seen every few steps on the street.
The old people are insured by the young people who are currently working.
But young people themselves are living a tight life. Newly graduated college students get 200,000 yen a month, while many elderly people can get 150,000 yen alone in their pensions.
Can young people be balanced?
More troublingly, the total population of Japan has declined for 14 consecutive years, with only 1.2 billion people left last year, and the share of the working age group is only 60%.
Factories are short of people, nursing homes are short of nursing workers, and even those who deliver couriers are dissatisfied.
This kind of population collapse is more difficult to save than the economic crisis.
The pension hole is getting wider and wider.
Countries spend 10% of their GDP annually on pension funds, which is higher than in many countries.
Young people have to pay taxes and insurance for half of their salary, and it is tight to raise children. Who wants to have more children?
The government has no choice but to push the retirement age to 70. Old teachers occupy the positions and young people have no way to promote.
Intergenerational contradictions are getting tighter and tighter like strings: the elderly feel that they deserve their pensions, while the young people feel that they are too tired to carry the whole society.
Economically it is worse.
Japan's GDP has slipped from the second place in the world to the fifth place, and its global share has dropped from 10% to 4%.
Last year, it was clamoring for recovery, but the first quarter of this year experienced negative growth.
Manufacturing PMI index for months in a row below the 50th edge, factory machines turn slowly, and orders rarely pull.
The most striking is that the automotive industry Toyota, Honda sales in China fell by 30 percent in the half-year, and the first quarter of this year car exports were also surpassed by China.
The once proud "handicraft spirit" was struck by its own enterprises: Toyota, Mazda manipulated safety data, Kobe made steel forged ...
When the speech collapsed, customers turned to Chinese-Korean companies.
The industrial transformation is more gradual.
Early in Japan, the hydrogen energy vehicle, patents saved a bunch, hydrogen production can be expensive, storage difficult, people do not buy bills, last year only sold 10,000 units.
On the other hand, China electric cars are running everywhere, and the Japanese master stared at them.
The semiconductor industry is more depressed, once accounting for 30 percent of the global market, now there is one percent, and you have to look at the American face.
The government gritted its teeth and spended money on AI and robots, but how can it fill the hole in traditional industries in the short term?
The depreciation of the yen makes insult to injury.
Now it costs 160 yen to change a dollar, compared with 75 yen more than ten years ago.
The prices of imported energy and raw materials have soared, and the trade deficit has snowballed. Last year, the deficit was 5.3 trillion yen.
The cost of imported parts for small and medium-sized enterprises has doubled, but the money earned from exports cannot make up for the gap.
People go to the supermarket obviously feel the price is high, but the wages do not rise, and the day by day is shrinking.
Fukushima's nuclear wastewater emissions are a hit.
The government said it met the safety standards, but when China and South Korea banned aquatic products, fishermen's catch was cut in half, and the price of fish dropped to cabbage money.
Even if the test reached the target, the consumer's heart responded, the Japanese aquaculture sign was dusted, and the coastal town was cool as Ghost City.
These problems are intertwined: fewer people → poor economy → the pressure on young people is greater → they are more reluctant to live → the burden of retirement is heavier.
It's not that the government has not worked hard. It has done a lot of elderly care robots and AI care, but the deep-seated structural diseases are difficult to eradicate.
The national debt is up to twice the GDP, and the resistance to reform is heavy, and the prime minister, such as the head of the cabinet, is assumed, and this year's growth is still estimated to be only 0.4%.
Japan is like an old car in the dirt, the parts are old, the fuel tank is empty, and the driver has changed a few rounds and has not opened up.
It reminds the whole world that it doesn't necessarily require artillery shells to destroy a country. When the society is old, the industry is old, and people's hearts are scattered, the decline is quieter than imagined, and it is more difficult to turn over.
Trouble readers to tap the upper right corner of the "attention", leave your wonderful comment with everyone to explore, thank you for your strong support!