Inflation numbers are fibs. Real Japanese have no way to save. They attach themselves to big corporations the same way one would attach themselves to a great samurai house. Nihilism at all time high.

It's inflation. Read The Princes of Yen. The West confiscated Japan's future. This is the result.

Nonsense. How do you explain the low to negative inflation  that has been there since the mid 80's and consistently declining births at the same time.
If anything, the relationship is the opposite, where low births cause population aging and subsequent deflation.

positronic_bot

Inflation is the cause of antinatalism, not the Japanese aesthetic, which is nature-like modernism rooted in cultural Shintoism.

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Less is more in Japan

cryotosensei

Less is less. Life is messy, noisy, inconvenient.
Japanese minimalism and conformism leads to not having children, living miserable emotional lives, alone and unfulfilled. And then not having kids and self-disappearing.
Screaming babies and toddlers messing up the furniture is life in its purest form.