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by ccity88 1262 days ago
In my experience, it's the exact opposite. It's the first and second generation immigrants who tend to have more kids and who tend to bring in fresh labour pools, and therefore more business making and running opportunities. This is a longstanding problem for any country that has an aging population, but the going solution (at least in Europe) has been to import labour by turning the needle on immigration. Japan hasn't done this, and they're notoriously anti-immigration. Think about the businesses that get created - local cultural food shops, cultural clothing shops, even in some cases entire submarkets to service immigrant communities. As time goes on, like or not, but countries that failed to adapt to the global era will fall behind to those willing to take a chance on immigration.
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>Japan hasn't done this, and they're notoriously anti-immigration.

No, they're not. Immigration laws were reformed completely in the last decade, and it's extremely easy to immigrate here if you have valuable skills. Lots of service jobs are also being filled by immigrants from SE Asia now.