This Government

Warm with a chance of natural insemination,

Made me laugh 😂
On a serious note, their demographic trends are leading them into the economic abyss.

Any positions of power will attract the worst of humanity, they seek to become untouchable.

I've always believed in actions over words, the way the government deal with this kind of thing is reprehensible, there was a story last week about an MP called Elphicke, who sexually assaulted a 20 yo aid, it took a year before the police were involved.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-53554485

On aging population.
Exactly, that's the demographic trends I refer to. 30% reduction in their population on current trends

I good post, the one urging caution until it's known what charges, if any are brought etc, and of course it's backed up by you saying something about Japan that I would like to see you justify.

Even the IMF with their regular scaremongering can't come up with anything worse as a forecast for Japan than predicting a 1% drop in projected growth PA over the coming 3 decades, and as we all know, the IMF love nothing more than to paint pictures of economic catastrophe.

What the heck are they talking about, less than what projection? This isn't a new thing that Japan have an ageing population.

The IMF even suggested Japan could reduce healthcare costs by increasing retirement age, so that would keep people active etc, that makes it obvious that they nothing whatsoever about the place. For as long as I've been a regular visitor they have had job creation schemes for retired people, an example would be keeping train platforms clean and tidy. IMF utterly clueless.

A couple of weeks back you were complaining that Japan was a sexist society, no abyss required as not only do those IMF figures ignore increased mechanisation and aren't aligned with Japan's own government forecasts, if you did some research before throwing insults around you would know that Women are being targeted and incentivised to enter the workplace. Not so much because the economy will fail without them, but to ensure that there are surplus workers and promotion opportunities, the idea being to keep staff morale up and people motivated and that the country can comfortably maintain it's position in the Global market.

Aligned with this is one of the factors that has been identified in reduced birth rate being dealt with, pre-school school provision has historically been a major problem there, that's slowly being corrected so that Women find it easier to enter the workforce.

Economic abyss. Yeah, alright, if you say so.

Very good, but predates 2016 when the measures I identified and pointed you towards were implemented.

It's my second home, I know the place fairly well.

Oh for goodness sake, here we go again.

Just Google Womenomics.

Can't you ever, just once, accept that someone knows more about a subject than you do.

Your stats are out of date.

I'll be patient with you again, goodness only knows why, you don't deserve it, but here's some context;

Baltimore school meals, my information was out of date, you corrected me, I accepted the correction and was happy to add new information to my knowledge base.

Today you give out of date information about Japan, I correct you and explain why you are wrong.

Your reaction above says everything anybody needs to know about you.

Just one final thing, you were more than happy to reference having lived and worked in America to support an argument you were putting forward.

Beyond Tedious.

Not sure why I'm even bothering, as you will still complain about something and say that what I'm telling you is wrong, doesn't qualify as evidence, is flawed or there will be another reason why you won't accept it.

Firstly, I'm not giving you any links as I've demonstrated on multiple occasions that you don't look at links I provide for you, so here's some detail.

Japanese Women are far higher educated than most western females, around 60% have degrees, US is hovering at around 50%, Japanese Women are more highly educated than their male counterparts, this feeds into what I've been saying about discipline and societal structure, but there are historic issues with taxation, a Husband can use his Wife's tax allowance as long as she doesn't earn more than ¥1.03m that's around £7000 PA at today's exchange rate, that's being changed.

There's been a chronic shortage of nursery school provision. That's being addressed.

When that paper you produced was drafted I think just over 60% of Women were working, a lot would have been structuring their work to stay within that £7k earning limit.

In most countries when a Lady leaves the workforce to start a family she returns within 3 years, in Japan 70% do not return for 10 years.

It's not only nursery provision, you know what the Japan trains are like, if a train is due to leave at 5pm it won't leave 20 seconds late, it will leave at 5pm, well, collecting children from primary school is the same, you pick your children up on time. This is a problem with work as it's all but expected that you stay until work is complete, you won't get far in any company if you are stood at the clocking out machine waiting for it to hit the exact time that you finish work, that's just not the culture. It's a very safe country, it's not unusual to see very young children making their own way to school, but if that's not possible and there's no after-school care that was a barrier to female employment, this is now being addressed.

I have lots more facts like this.

There is a language barrier, and a cultural one, they aren't about to put themselves in a position where fewer than half of the residents of their capital city identify as Japanese, I can promise you, that will never, ever happen, and rightly so, so they are focusing on an underutilised resource that they have at their disposal, but are willing to allow a limited number of lower skilled workers in to fill specific rolls. But they are aware that the countries that these workers may come from have the same demographic issues, so they aren't assuming that there will be any large amount of immigration.

The other thing that you aren't allowing for is that with a reduced population, you don't need such a large economy, and if this is played out in other parts of the world, there won't be such a large global market to service. There is such a thing as 'over supply' which is every bit as problematic as insufficient capacity.

Then there's increased mechanisation, that will reduce the reliance on labour. Hard to quantify.

I've contacted a girl that I know in Tokyo and have asked her for her thoughts on this subject. Will let you know what she says.

Is this enough?

Edit.

It's worth noting, those population forecasts you gave were just ridiculous. This is as mental as Biblical literalists saying that with present population increase rates, if the earth was 13 billion years old, there would be around 20,000,000 people per-square foot. You can't take a number that works for one point in time and continually roll it forward. Please go to the back of the class and write out 100 times; I must not quote as fact every bit of tripe I find that fits with what I'm trying to demonstrate. 

Thanks.

If the police are investigating I presume they are taking it seriously.
Strange that the lady concerned waited nearly 4 months to make a formal complaint to the Police after talking to the Whip, suggests she thought some action might be taken at that point.

Time will tell.