Comments by "kageyamareijikun" (@kageyamareijikun) on "Why Japan's Women Hesitate to Give Birth | Birthrate Crisis (ep.5)" video.

@jiaweike3518 Japan is not overcrowded at all. Take the Shinkansen and see how vast the landmass of Japan is. Overcrowded is like Hong Kong or Singapore with people everywhere packed to the brim 24/7 with no space to move or breath, traffic clogging up every single road and accidents happening all the time. People fighting and screaming because of high stress and excessive competition and cost of living with inflation triple or 5 times higher than Japan.
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Japan is the most affordable and most conducive place in Asia for Japanese people to have Japanese kids. (if you are foreign, tough luck). If you can't do it here you can't do it in any other Asian country. Every other Asian country is at least twice or thrice more expensive than Japan. (I'm referring to developed Asian economies not Southeast Asian developing countries) Problem is while Japan is cheap, so are their wages.
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@ChickensAndGardening Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, etc etc. But of course the global media only cares about Japan, which actually has the highest birthrate of all these countries.
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