One of the most lasting of Japan’s many self-inflicted wounds during the Covid-19 Pandemic is likely to be the drop in marriages caused the population’s willingness to go along with instructions to not socialise or show their faces.
Guy Gin, I can't thank you enough for keeping me up-to-date on C19 and Japan. As we all know, Japan was in trouble well before the alleged "pandemic". There weren't enough births to sustain the elderly population well before C19 occurred. Now the worst is yet to come. Covidiocy is correct. How this can happen is something I don't understand because I don't understand Japanese culture. But the question I have is as follows. I'm 67 years old and in 67 years I have never experienced a pandemic. Never. So why, tell me why, we now have to worry about "the next pandemic?" How can we, in 2023, believe multiple pandemics are a part and parcel of our futures. The only answer I can come up with that makes any sense at all is that each and every "pandemic" is purposeful, manmade and planned. I have stage 4 metastatic lung cancer. I tried chemo but it was far too toxic so I stopped. I have months to a year to live, more likely months. For the first time in my life dying is something that not only don't I fear, I almost welcome it. Based on WEF, BIS, WHO and a slew of other three letter organizations my perspective is that they're going to win since they control international and national finance. I don't believe they'll win ion the end but I do believe they'll succeed for perhaps a decade or so. So I'm more than comfortable with my health condition. I don't want to be here to see what happens and I won't be. I fear for my children and grandchildren but there's nothing I can do to save them other than insuring they're not injected, for now at least, and they aren't. Beyond that I hope and pray for you, for Japan and for the world. Again, thank you for your posts. I read them all.
Thanks. Yeah, the enthusiasm with which the globalist ghouls bang on about the next pandemic is sickening. But I guess it’s predictable since they got so much out of the last one.
That's a sad state of mind, but a truly understandable one. These are crazy times and it really does seem that things will get much nastier in the relatively near future.
I wish you a peaceful passage to the other side, and if there is reincarnation, that your state will be a happier one.
Sorry to hear of your situation, despite your misgivings about the future.
Actually, there's some evidence pointing to the possibility that we didn't experience a pandemic this time either. Many of the deaths may have been misclassified, plus many may have been iatrogenic in nature. Then there's the nocebo effect...
Thank you for your efforts, Guy Gin. That was a good laugh. As for leaving the birthrate in the hands of politicians, that would be a mistake. I'll take care of it all by myself. In about 95% of all interactions with other men, I am the Alpha. The real ladies will come aflockin'.
“I'll take care of it all by myself.” Make sure to spread yourself around the country rather than concentrate in one place though. Aim for a kid at every Shinkansen stop.
Did you see the press photographs of the Emperor’s garden party the other day? The first one in more than four years - half the usual number of guests, no alcohol or food served, soft drinks only, EVERYBODY masked and it rained. It sounds like a bundle of fun - don’t you wish you’d been there? And obviously soft drinks keep Covid at bay but it’s too dangerous to drink the hard stuff.
The Emperor is a committed Covidian. When he went to a London for Elizabeth II’s funeral, the hotel staff had to mask up. The only reason he didn’t mask at the funeral is because nobody else did and he didn’t want to stand out.
Do you know if things are different in the countryside or at certain workplaces now? I ask because I've seen recent news and documentary footage of people going maskless at some of those places. It's kind of an odd juxtaposition seeing everyone masked outside in the public in Tokyo
I’ve no good data to point to. But in the office complex I work in, the mask rate is still 90%. The junior-high school I live near seems to be the same or higher.
I live near Mt. Takao at the west edge of Tokyo, and the rate of masking here may be a bit lower, but still weirdly high. People walking alone on empty rural paths with mask on is not such a rare sight. Of course, people on bicycles and driving cars alone with masks are commonplace...
If I had to guess, I’d say mask rates will stay higher for longer in the countryside since who is seen unmasked where is no doubt a subject of gossip: “I saw Sato San unmasked in 7/11 the other day. I can’t believe he’d do that when his wife’s diabetic.”
Hadn't thought of that. But many of the old-timers here seem less interested in masks, for whatever reason. Maybe as farmers they feel more independent? I have no statistics though...
We live in countryside Yamanashi and it is very covidian here. Our 14yo is 1 of 2 kids in the whole school not wearing a mask. But during Golden Week holiday 90% of people having BBQ near the lakes were unmasked. Almost took me by surprise. What I've seen so far Aichi-ken seemed to be pretty laid back, with fewer people wearing masks. I've pretty much stopped caring, as my wife says "more oxygen for us".
Thank you for the good news article! This is great for a number of reasons. I'm not a bachelor but if I was there are a number of benefits to this:
1. Because of the Japanese face turban, I could easily detect Corona Masuko. Our religious values would not match and it would be an immediate deal breaker. I wouldn't even need to pay for a one-coin ramen.
2. The Japanese face turban is a good indicator that the individual is likely injected with the gene juice. The tighter the turban, the more likely she is more faithful to Bill Gates than our relationship. Neither our genetic and relationship values would match and this would be an immediate deal breaker.
3. Mindless genetically modified organisms are better off not perpetuating anyway, so the declining marriage and birth rates I think is a positive trend. Perhaps this is all by design?
I am curious about that, as well. While Gates and other oligarchs have been saying for years that world overpopulation is a menace and seem to be working hard to get us culled down, the vaxxxed are the most compliant and also the least likely to survive. That will leave mainly us non-compliant contrarians---seems the opposite of an oligarch-friendly result.
Long time/first time. I really appreciate your articles on the new abnormal in Japan. It's concerning and depressing when where I live, the Bay Area in California, sees seemingly fewer zealots in comparison. Masking for a respiratory virus is so 2020.
In particular, the traditional farming regions are dying out, a terrible situation given that Japan is not agriculturally self-sufficient (official figure is 37%; I've seen one investigative journalist state the real figure is closer to 10%).
It's strange over 70-80% of the population lives in the 2 biggest cities of Osaka & Tokyo? And although bittersweet, I love the empty countryside. Feels like being in the "Walking Dead" episode sometimes. Houses falling apart, tiny mountain roads overgrowing with grasses & weeds, abandoned villages, waterfalls and more wildlife than humans. Apocalypse is already here, in the Japanese countryside.
Have you tried comparing births and marriages throughout the past years?
I wrote a really brief article on this a while back and concluded that a decline in marriages might just be the biggest factor in the decline of births across Europe.
It seems that the rate of marriages and birth is subject to change, but when there is a short term change in marriages, we see a corresponding change in births 47 weeks later (I think it was 47).
I agree the decline in marriage greatly affected the number of births, and it's been overlooked by the vax-sceptic side.
Comparing the number of births and marriages to accurately measure the effect in Japan is beyond my statistical skills, but the Tokyo Uni researchers I reference plotted the monthly number of births as a percentage of the that in same month in 2017 (slide 9, https://www.bicea.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/policy-analysis-42/). Interestingly, the biggest drop is at the end of 2020/start of 2021. I think that's probably due to already married couples choosing to postpone trying for kids in early 2020 during peak Covid hysteria.
I finally got round reading (actually re-reading) your post. Overall, birth rates seemed to drop a lot less in Europe than in East Asia. Births in South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan dropped even more than in Japan, last time I checked. And yes, those countries are full of mask maniacs too.
Well that's interesting. You don't happen to have a dataset I could use that spares me the trouble of gathering all these data myself, do you?
It has been hammered into our heads that masks are already an integral part of SE Asian culture over here in Europe. It was a big argument in the marketing campaign. Supposedly Asian countries are handling COVID so well because of higher mask acceptance. Ridiculous.
I think there are several aspects to the masking itself that could impact fertility:
- Different blood gases might have an impact on both men and women
I don't have the official national data to hand, but I remember Igor Chudov writing about Taiwan last year.
But I follow a Twitter account that posts on this topic: https://twitter.com/BirthGauge. His/Her latest data for 2020 shows total fertility rates below 1 in SK, HK, and Taiwan.
"It has been hammered into our heads that masks are already an integral part of SE Asian culture over here in Europe."
"Intergral"?! That is absolute bullshit. Next time you see or hear someone make that claim, ask them to take a look at any pre-2020 photo of a crowd of people in Japan and count how many are wearing masks.
The far East was scarred for generations to come by the 25 year reign of a prosperous Marxist theorist peasant named Mao. The West has been infected and subverted by that culture of obsequious obedient conformity ever since.
Ah women… and castrated men… looking forward to seeing the offspring of such a nice combination ^^
You won’t be seeing too many of them.
Fortunately, yes. Who sincerely wants them to replicate, anyway ?
Guy Gin, I can't thank you enough for keeping me up-to-date on C19 and Japan. As we all know, Japan was in trouble well before the alleged "pandemic". There weren't enough births to sustain the elderly population well before C19 occurred. Now the worst is yet to come. Covidiocy is correct. How this can happen is something I don't understand because I don't understand Japanese culture. But the question I have is as follows. I'm 67 years old and in 67 years I have never experienced a pandemic. Never. So why, tell me why, we now have to worry about "the next pandemic?" How can we, in 2023, believe multiple pandemics are a part and parcel of our futures. The only answer I can come up with that makes any sense at all is that each and every "pandemic" is purposeful, manmade and planned. I have stage 4 metastatic lung cancer. I tried chemo but it was far too toxic so I stopped. I have months to a year to live, more likely months. For the first time in my life dying is something that not only don't I fear, I almost welcome it. Based on WEF, BIS, WHO and a slew of other three letter organizations my perspective is that they're going to win since they control international and national finance. I don't believe they'll win ion the end but I do believe they'll succeed for perhaps a decade or so. So I'm more than comfortable with my health condition. I don't want to be here to see what happens and I won't be. I fear for my children and grandchildren but there's nothing I can do to save them other than insuring they're not injected, for now at least, and they aren't. Beyond that I hope and pray for you, for Japan and for the world. Again, thank you for your posts. I read them all.
Thanks. Yeah, the enthusiasm with which the globalist ghouls bang on about the next pandemic is sickening. But I guess it’s predictable since they got so much out of the last one.
That's a sad state of mind, but a truly understandable one. These are crazy times and it really does seem that things will get much nastier in the relatively near future.
I wish you a peaceful passage to the other side, and if there is reincarnation, that your state will be a happier one.
Sorry to hear of your situation, despite your misgivings about the future.
Actually, there's some evidence pointing to the possibility that we didn't experience a pandemic this time either. Many of the deaths may have been misclassified, plus many may have been iatrogenic in nature. Then there's the nocebo effect...
I agree 100%
Thank you for your efforts, Guy Gin. That was a good laugh. As for leaving the birthrate in the hands of politicians, that would be a mistake. I'll take care of it all by myself. In about 95% of all interactions with other men, I am the Alpha. The real ladies will come aflockin'.
“I'll take care of it all by myself.” Make sure to spread yourself around the country rather than concentrate in one place though. Aim for a kid at every Shinkansen stop.
Sounds expensive. I may have to settle for every station on the Chuo line.
Just keep your mask on so you can't be tracked down ;P
Even with the mask, they will know it's me. Honey badgers have a distinct smell.
LOL
Did you see the press photographs of the Emperor’s garden party the other day? The first one in more than four years - half the usual number of guests, no alcohol or food served, soft drinks only, EVERYBODY masked and it rained. It sounds like a bundle of fun - don’t you wish you’d been there? And obviously soft drinks keep Covid at bay but it’s too dangerous to drink the hard stuff.
The Emperor is a committed Covidian. When he went to a London for Elizabeth II’s funeral, the hotel staff had to mask up. The only reason he didn’t mask at the funeral is because nobody else did and he didn’t want to stand out.
"Emperor"
I’ve now capitalised it. I’d hate for his imperial majesty to read the comments here and think of me as insufficiently respectful.
I'm sorry if I was misunderstood. I meant for "Emperor" to include the quotation-marks-of-respect.
Do you know if things are different in the countryside or at certain workplaces now? I ask because I've seen recent news and documentary footage of people going maskless at some of those places. It's kind of an odd juxtaposition seeing everyone masked outside in the public in Tokyo
I’ve no good data to point to. But in the office complex I work in, the mask rate is still 90%. The junior-high school I live near seems to be the same or higher.
I live near Mt. Takao at the west edge of Tokyo, and the rate of masking here may be a bit lower, but still weirdly high. People walking alone on empty rural paths with mask on is not such a rare sight. Of course, people on bicycles and driving cars alone with masks are commonplace...
If I had to guess, I’d say mask rates will stay higher for longer in the countryside since who is seen unmasked where is no doubt a subject of gossip: “I saw Sato San unmasked in 7/11 the other day. I can’t believe he’d do that when his wife’s diabetic.”
Hadn't thought of that. But many of the old-timers here seem less interested in masks, for whatever reason. Maybe as farmers they feel more independent? I have no statistics though...
We live in countryside Yamanashi and it is very covidian here. Our 14yo is 1 of 2 kids in the whole school not wearing a mask. But during Golden Week holiday 90% of people having BBQ near the lakes were unmasked. Almost took me by surprise. What I've seen so far Aichi-ken seemed to be pretty laid back, with fewer people wearing masks. I've pretty much stopped caring, as my wife says "more oxygen for us".
Thank you for the good news article! This is great for a number of reasons. I'm not a bachelor but if I was there are a number of benefits to this:
1. Because of the Japanese face turban, I could easily detect Corona Masuko. Our religious values would not match and it would be an immediate deal breaker. I wouldn't even need to pay for a one-coin ramen.
2. The Japanese face turban is a good indicator that the individual is likely injected with the gene juice. The tighter the turban, the more likely she is more faithful to Bill Gates than our relationship. Neither our genetic and relationship values would match and this would be an immediate deal breaker.
3. Mindless genetically modified organisms are better off not perpetuating anyway, so the declining marriage and birth rates I think is a positive trend. Perhaps this is all by design?
“The Japanese face turban is a good indicator that the individual is likely injected with the gene juice.”
That Venn diagram would indeed have a lot of overlap.
I am curious about that, as well. While Gates and other oligarchs have been saying for years that world overpopulation is a menace and seem to be working hard to get us culled down, the vaxxxed are the most compliant and also the least likely to survive. That will leave mainly us non-compliant contrarians---seems the opposite of an oligarch-friendly result.
Long time/first time. I really appreciate your articles on the new abnormal in Japan. It's concerning and depressing when where I live, the Bay Area in California, sees seemingly fewer zealots in comparison. Masking for a respiratory virus is so 2020.
Only true believers still wear masks in the west. Conformist East Asia is different.
Add well over 100,000 excess deaths in 2022 to the equation and things look grim indeed.
To be exact, 2022 saw 731,000 more deaths than births. Yep, grim.
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01650/
To be fair, isn't Japan severely overpopulated as it is?
Greater Tokyo and Osaka are certainly overcrowded, but the countryside has the opposite problem.
In particular, the traditional farming regions are dying out, a terrible situation given that Japan is not agriculturally self-sufficient (official figure is 37%; I've seen one investigative journalist state the real figure is closer to 10%).
It's strange over 70-80% of the population lives in the 2 biggest cities of Osaka & Tokyo? And although bittersweet, I love the empty countryside. Feels like being in the "Walking Dead" episode sometimes. Houses falling apart, tiny mountain roads overgrowing with grasses & weeds, abandoned villages, waterfalls and more wildlife than humans. Apocalypse is already here, in the Japanese countryside.
Wow! Time to visit while it's still accessible!
Oooooh nice, you did this for Japan.
Have you tried comparing births and marriages throughout the past years?
I wrote a really brief article on this a while back and concluded that a decline in marriages might just be the biggest factor in the decline of births across Europe.
It seems that the rate of marriages and birth is subject to change, but when there is a short term change in marriages, we see a corresponding change in births 47 weeks later (I think it was 47).
I agree the decline in marriage greatly affected the number of births, and it's been overlooked by the vax-sceptic side.
Comparing the number of births and marriages to accurately measure the effect in Japan is beyond my statistical skills, but the Tokyo Uni researchers I reference plotted the monthly number of births as a percentage of the that in same month in 2017 (slide 9, https://www.bicea.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/policy-analysis-42/). Interestingly, the biggest drop is at the end of 2020/start of 2021. I think that's probably due to already married couples choosing to postpone trying for kids in early 2020 during peak Covid hysteria.
Too bad the text is Japanese, but I suppose you summarized it well enough!
You might find this one interesting as well then:
https://vigilance.pervaers.com/p/germany-where-is-the-love
It's just a bunch of charts displaying marriages and births across German federal lands.
I finally got round reading (actually re-reading) your post. Overall, birth rates seemed to drop a lot less in Europe than in East Asia. Births in South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan dropped even more than in Japan, last time I checked. And yes, those countries are full of mask maniacs too.
Well that's interesting. You don't happen to have a dataset I could use that spares me the trouble of gathering all these data myself, do you?
It has been hammered into our heads that masks are already an integral part of SE Asian culture over here in Europe. It was a big argument in the marketing campaign. Supposedly Asian countries are handling COVID so well because of higher mask acceptance. Ridiculous.
I think there are several aspects to the masking itself that could impact fertility:
- Different blood gases might have an impact on both men and women
- It's harder to connect emotionally
In case you have any use for it, here is a csv with monthly data for most European countries for 2017-2022 (based on Christian Meyer's work who deserves all the credit here https://cm27874.substack.com/p/european-births-slideshow-reloaded):
https://substack.pervaers.com/misc/births.csv
I don't have the official national data to hand, but I remember Igor Chudov writing about Taiwan last year.
But I follow a Twitter account that posts on this topic: https://twitter.com/BirthGauge. His/Her latest data for 2020 shows total fertility rates below 1 in SK, HK, and Taiwan.
"It has been hammered into our heads that masks are already an integral part of SE Asian culture over here in Europe."
"Intergral"?! That is absolute bullshit. Next time you see or hear someone make that claim, ask them to take a look at any pre-2020 photo of a crowd of people in Japan and count how many are wearing masks.
Thank you, that's great argumentative ammunition for countering such claims.
Tragicomedy gold.
Your Twitter feed is also proving to be a terrific source of news and information.
Thank you for all your tireless efforts.
It does make me wonder if there really is some lady that goes by a コロナ マス子 pseudonym on a dating site
I'm happy to hear about men who want to know what their dates look like.
I'm sad to hear about women who don't want to know what their dates look like.
“I'm sad to hear about women who don't want to know what their dates look like.”
That never occurred to me. Corona Masuko would rather hide her face than see her date’s face.
To Kishda - do they have no mirrors in Japan? Or do the still wear a mask when looking at oneself in one?
Wow, now that's interesting....just how far are they taking their masking mania, after all...?
The far East was scarred for generations to come by the 25 year reign of a prosperous Marxist theorist peasant named Mao. The West has been infected and subverted by that culture of obsequious obedient conformity ever since.