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	<title>Comments on: Japan&#8217;s Most Wanted Might Be Grandma</title>
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		<title>By: fortziii</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[try marrying a filipino japanese girls... they&#039;ll fuck and impregnate you all year round]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>try marrying a filipino japanese girls&#8230; they&#8217;ll fuck and impregnate you all year round</p>
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		<title>By: amandajapanda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids are expensive anywhere, not only Iin Japan. Children have the same needs regardless of the country. And from what Im seeing here in the US, most kids are staying with their parents well into their twenties as well. I don&#039;t know the reason for the low birth rate in Japan, but attributing it to the expense seems a bit off. If kids costing money meant a lower birth rate, then the birth rate in poorer countries should be dismal. But it isn&#039;t. It&#039;s weird how in countries where the majority of people live below the poverty line the birth rate is extremely high, but in a developed country like Japan it&#039;s low. I wonder why...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kids are expensive anywhere, not only Iin Japan. Children have the same needs regardless of the country. And from what Im seeing here in the US, most kids are staying with their parents well into their twenties as well. I don&#8217;t know the reason for the low birth rate in Japan, but attributing it to the expense seems a bit off. If kids costing money meant a lower birth rate, then the birth rate in poorer countries should be dismal. But it isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s weird how in countries where the majority of people live below the poverty line the birth rate is extremely high, but in a developed country like Japan it&#8217;s low. I wonder why&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: TMC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Just because people are choosing to have sex, it doesn&#039;t mean that they will choose to have babies.  Japan is a developed country, there are ways around it.  When I was in high school there a couple of my classmates had abortions.  Being a single parent in Japan is not as accepted as it is it is in other countries, so it isn&#039;t surprising at all that fewer marriages means fewer babies.  And the people that do get married are also having fewer kids.  They are really expensive in Japan.  They don&#039;t leave the house at 18, they usually stick around until they get married (which, in today&#039;s climate might be never) on their parents&#039; dime.  Parents also have to pay for high school, college, and sometimes junior high.  Financially, it doesn&#039;t really make sense to have kids in Japan right now.  And children of foreigners do not get Japanese citizenship if they&#039;re born in Japan.  Only if one of the parents is Japanese.  And Japanese porn is mostly viewed by single Japanese men.  Kinda hard to have a baby with yourself.  And there are lots of other countries with the same problem.  Japan is just one of the most extreme.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Just because people are choosing to have sex, it doesn&#8217;t mean that they will choose to have babies.  Japan is a developed country, there are ways around it.  When I was in high school there a couple of my classmates had abortions.  Being a single parent in Japan is not as accepted as it is it is in other countries, so it isn&#8217;t surprising at all that fewer marriages means fewer babies.  And the people that do get married are also having fewer kids.  They are really expensive in Japan.  They don&#8217;t leave the house at 18, they usually stick around until they get married (which, in today&#8217;s climate might be never) on their parents&#8217; dime.  Parents also have to pay for high school, college, and sometimes junior high.  Financially, it doesn&#8217;t really make sense to have kids in Japan right now.  And children of foreigners do not get Japanese citizenship if they&#8217;re born in Japan.  Only if one of the parents is Japanese.  And Japanese porn is mostly viewed by single Japanese men.  Kinda hard to have a baby with yourself.  And there are lots of other countries with the same problem.  Japan is just one of the most extreme.</p>
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		<title>By: Guin Aoiichi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t get it. Where is the demographic and stats information coming from?? Is it from the government of Japan?  I mean ,to me it just seems odd that no &quot; Japanese &quot; are reproducing. Hell it just seems illogical. What happened to the basic biological need to procreate? ( in other words have sex)  I highly doubt that, because there is less &quot;Marrying&quot; young people aren&#039;t going to be out getting laid. (or try to get laid) Do they not count births that happen out of wed lock? What about births between a Japanese and non-japanese? Are those births also not counted? What about births from immigrants to Japan? How does the law of Japan deal with that? In the states , if you are born here you are a citizen. Even if your parents are immigrants. Is it the same in Japan? And if it is , how are those births counted?

And what about Japan&#039;s porn.... they got ALL sorts of porn. You&#039;d think that would stimulate a higher birth rate no??

Maybe it&#039;s not that there is less births, but people are just living longer?
Are there any other countries in the world with the same kind of problem?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t get it. Where is the demographic and stats information coming from?? Is it from the government of Japan?  I mean ,to me it just seems odd that no &#8221; Japanese &#8221; are reproducing. Hell it just seems illogical. What happened to the basic biological need to procreate? ( in other words have sex)  I highly doubt that, because there is less &#8220;Marrying&#8221; young people aren&#8217;t going to be out getting laid. (or try to get laid) Do they not count births that happen out of wed lock? What about births between a Japanese and non-japanese? Are those births also not counted? What about births from immigrants to Japan? How does the law of Japan deal with that? In the states , if you are born here you are a citizen. Even if your parents are immigrants. Is it the same in Japan? And if it is , how are those births counted?</p>
<p>And what about Japan&#8217;s porn&#8230;. they got ALL sorts of porn. You&#8217;d think that would stimulate a higher birth rate no??</p>
<p>Maybe it&#8217;s not that there is less births, but people are just living longer?<br />
Are there any other countries in the world with the same kind of problem?</p>
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		<title>By: ですこ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 03:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one knows for sure.]]></description>
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		<title>By: ですこ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 03:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it&#039;s blue/purple then yes, it&#039;s an attempt to dye yellowing hair using blue rinse, but they put in too much, &#039;cause cataracts lessens your ability to see blue.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If it&#8217;s blue/purple then yes, it&#8217;s an attempt to dye yellowing hair using blue rinse, but they put in too much, &#8217;cause cataracts lessens your ability to see blue.</p>
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