For the past few months, I've been trying to avoid politics and current events, but this might fall under the category of "long-standing prospects of demographic collapse"—not exactly a current event. Japan is responding better than Korea is: these days, Korea will let in anybody, as if it were being run by that old bat Angela Merkel. And Korea needs to watch out for its own demographic collapse, which is on its way here as long as the young refuse to get married and have kids. South Korea has one of the lowest birth rates in the world—it's second only to Taiwan, which has the absolute worst birth rate (1.11 children per mother for Taiwan; 1.12 children per mother for South Korea). North Korea, a starving country, has a rate of 1.77 children per woman, which is still not a replacement minimum (> 2.0 c/m). The US is actually worse than North Korea at 1.6 children/mother. And for what it's worth, Japan is at 1.38 c/m. If Japan refuses to import more foreigners who don't assimilate, they'd better get working on those AI caretaker robots, then!
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