The Poarter
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What if Japan ended up having double the population it has now with the same per capita wealth? How would this effect global politics?
Do you mean with a post-VJ Day PoD? Because that would require a rather high birth rate, in a country which is unlikely to accept significant levels of immigration.I actually meant the Japan of post world war 2 increasing its population from 71 million to 254 million by 2015.
Do you mean with a post-VJ Day PoD? Because that would require a rather high birth rate, in a country which is unlikely to accept significant levels of immigration.
That more than trippling it. To get the GDP to stay the same... Well, hard. To cook the books for that. Unless they become the only ones in East Asia to deal with finance and industry I don't see it happening. And we should keep in mind that even today they are not exactly the model of efficieny. People are expected to work long hours, go to social events with coworkers and puke their guts out, use floppy disks.... Quite a few cases of women divorcing their husbands as soon as they retire, because they had basically never seen them for several decades. Is this population all Japanese or do they have a lot of immigrants or foreign workers? Land and food prices are already terribly high, but perhaps moving into rural areas and spreading out their cities can alleviate that to a bit, and without high tarriffs on food they simply buy food cheap from other countries. These sorts of things would threaten the powers-that-be though, and I see foreigners being kept out with the excuse that the islands are too crowded, they are communist sympathizes, etc.I actually meant the Japan of post world war 2 increasing its population from 71 million to 254 million by 2015.
That more than trippling it. To get the GDP to stay the same... Well, hard. To cook the books for that. Unless they become the only ones in East Asia to deal with finance and industry I don't see it happening. And we should keep in mind that even today they are not exactly the model of efficieny. People are expected to work long hours, go to social events with coworkers and puke their guts out, use floppy disks.... Quite a few cases of women divorcing their husbands as soon as they retire, because they had basically never seen them for several decades. Is this population all Japanese or do they have a lot of immigrants or foreign workers? Land and food prices are already terribly high, but perhaps moving into rural areas and spreading out their cities can alleviate that to a bit, and without high tarriffs on food they simply buy food cheap from other countries. These sorts of things would threaten the powers-that-be though, and I see foreigners being kept out with the excuse that the islands are too crowded, they are communist sympathizes, etc.
These things are important. Can you give general age, ethnic, and gender demographics?You misunderstand. I wish to know what the world would be like had Japan had such a population not how it got to such.
You misunderstand. I wish to know what the world would be like had Japan had such a population not how it got to such.
Best I could come up with on short notice.
Any thoughts?
My thought is that you do not really understand how demographics work.
Let me give you a hint, things like birthrate etc. are a result of the societal situation. Unless you totally alter japanese society in a way that would make it almost unrecognizable this will not happen.
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Have even read what I wrote?
Your scenario is meaningless since you already gutted the discussion of "how".
You might read mine:
Let's try to make this thread slightly more serious.