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Japan wrestles with its views on ‘outside people’ amid population crisis (www.theguardian.com)

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Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not as easy as absorbing people into rural towns and I suspect you know that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it seems better than the alternatives of letting those towns collapse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So you're going to have towns full of retired old people? Maybe also include their caretakers and maybe service workers supplying everything the caretakers need. Oh, and schools for the caretakers children. And teachers, obviously. And maybe some industry for the caretakers spouses to work at.

Retirees aren't going to keep towns alive. They're just usually among the last to leave.