Japan's Population

"The power of population is indefinetely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."

- Thomas Malthus

Contrasting Malthus, Japan after the 1970s has encountered an accelerating population decrease which has been accompanied by economical and political issues. As the world observes, the unfolding story occuring on this island, indefinetly, will be a lesson for the rest of the world.

Japanese lifestyle culminates into such population decrease the country is experiencing. Dedication and commitment to work further disuade the working class to build family. Life expectency is one of the best in these lands but when the elderly are living too long welfare and entitlement programs draw from the economy. Rather than deal with the stress and expenses a family may bring, men and women partake in an the expansive artificial love culture exploiting such prexisting conditions. More of the youth are delving into Otaku culture which subletly promotes isolation and escapism from reality hindering the social requisites that are needed to form a family and grow. Prefecture populations are shifting as people move more into urban areas. As you view the map, keep in mind the spatial relationships between prefectures and exactly where the population is leaving from and going to.

The homogenous society also refuses immigration policy reform as a means of short term solution which illuminates the processes occuring in Japan a true reflection pure Japanese culture and where future is leading to.

Below, the map depicts data compiling Japan's population in 1950, 1990, and 2013 in conjuction with rate of change in population from 2005 to 2010 by prefecture. Data was sourced from the Statistical Survey Department from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.