Aging society

Ageing of Japan

Japan has population issue which is aging population with a declining birthrate. The　reason for aging population is progress of medical technology resulted in improving average lifespan. I don`t believe that is a bad thing but declining birthrate is also serious problem.

This serious problem is based on uneasiness which people think about childbirth. As advancement in society of women and economic stagnation, people have no money for child rearing and two-income family increase. Even if people have money for child rearing, they have no time for child rearing. People need child care facility, but child welfare facility in Japan is almost full. This factor makes them difficult to have child and be unwilling for childbirth.

Problems

Aging causes a lot of serious problems. To make matters worth, in Japan, there had been grown falling of birthrate. Because of these matters, depopulation of whole society started.Diminution of the youth means diminution of the work force of the country, so industry of Japan is gradually declining. The youth would have to help the old by economic support. Then, income of the youth would go down and more painful to have a baby and bring up children. In short, many people are going to be not able to afford to have children. This is a vicious circle that difficult to get out of. Finally, this country will be ruined

 

In foreign country

But how do other countries improve it? In Denmark, birth rate was recovered 1.9 in 2013 because the government invested in child care and education. Education expenditure is free from elementary school until university, and the government supply about 70,000 yen to college students in case they couldn't study seriously because they have to work part-time for budget. But it is not necessary that any countries could solve the problem by this way. For example, Australia government supply money for families and children since 1980, but birth rate tends to decrease yet. In Japan, the birth rates is also very low. Many developed countries want to solve this problem and try to increase birth rate. But there might be no definite answer which could solve this problem completely. And aging in Japan is extremely serious. So we have to improve this situation soon.

Solution

It is difficult to prevent increasing aging people, so we think that we should prevent declining birth rates. Increasing young people can support aging society. To increase a birthrate, it is necessary to make the society where working women are able to bear and educate children. Therefore we suggest following ways to solve this issue.

・Increasing childcare center

・Economical support such as childcare allowance

・Allowing more and more childcare leave

These ways promote that we have a child. But this issue is complicated. As aging society is connected with many things such as woman labor issue, elderly care, and recession, it is difficult to solve this issue. Therefore we must think to solve this issue seriously more and more.

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declining_birth_rate

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%91%E5%AD%90%E5%8C%96