TuskCracker
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- 17 Jan 2004
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I do not get it. Japan has a population decline, but tons and tons of adult entertainment. You would think the popluation would be booming.
Japan trying to keep women in workforce
Nov 18, 2005 — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to toughen its gender equality law in an effort to encourage women to stay in the workforce as the population begins to shrink, a government official said on Friday.
... on and on...
I really don't think that the first and foremost concern is the labour force, as you could solve the problem partially by being more open to imigration...The Daily Yomuri said:It is feared, first and foremost, that the labor-force segment of the population, a basis for economic activities, may diminish as a result of the shrinking and graying population.
It's a shame that it takes a 'crisis of identity' to get Japan to toughen it's equality laws--- And no, pornography has nothing to do with procreation--- probably keeps some salarymen company on lonely nights though. I also don't think Japan is a nation of pornography addicts...
I've found that people will find the most selacious bits of information to re-tell whenever making a documentary or writing about Japan.JackInBox said:From "outside" japan. It sure seems like it. But again I am, on the outside looking in (internet, newspapers, trends we hear about it, magazines, products sold with English subtitles).
But again adult entertainment, or sex even create a child (birth control, abortion..).
... seen as an otaku thing...
Nov 18, 2005 — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to toughen its gender equality law in an effort to encourage women to stay in the workforce as the population begins to shrink, a government official said on Friday.
The Health and Welfare Ministry will propose an amendment to the 1986 law that would ban employers from treating women unfavourably because they are pregnant or have young children, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said.
Employers would also be prevented from firing a woman who was pregnant, or who had a child under a year old, unless they could prove that the employee's family situation was not the reason, the paper said.
"With the population falling, we need to create the kind of environment where talented people can make the best use of their abilities," the official at the Health and Welfare Ministry said.
She said she could not comment on details of the proposals, which are not due to be finalized until the end of the year.
The 20-year-old Equal Employment Opportunity law has done little to improve women's status in the Japanese workplace. Female employees are paid on average only two thirds of a man's salary and just a tiny minority are promoted to management.
One economist said in a report last month that increasing female participation in the workforce was the most realistic way of improving Japan's sliding ratio of workers to retirees.
Current forecasts show Japan will have only two workers for each pensioner within the next 30 years, Kathy Matsui of investment bank Goldman Sachs said.
Boosting the number of working women could also give the economy a lift through greater growth in consumption of certain goods and services, Matsui said in the October report.
Japanese women currently tend to resign their jobs on giving birth and return to work, often on a part-time basis, when their children become independent.
Only 55 percent of all Japanese women work, compared with 62 percent in the United States.
The amendment to the law will be presented to parliament next year, the Nihon Keizai said.
JackInBox said:i always get chewed out for posting whole articles (concern/panic/hyper-ventitlating over copyright)
Japan has a population decline, but tons and tons of adult entertainment. You would think the popluation would be booming.
窶督ｳ窶板昶?堋ｶ窶堙｡窶堙ｱﾂ！That would clicking on a different button!doinkies said:Yeah...if you go looking for porn DVDs on amazon.co.jp, they ask whether you are 18+ or not. They don't sell porn DVDs to just any old doink. Although, naturally, doinkies imagines that many people try to fake that they are 18+. XD
.The abortion rate in Japan is quite high, and also with the cost of living and education along with the responsibility to assist with other family care, most families do not have many children. Check into the statistics and research on Japanese birth control and abortion.