Certain aspects of the Japanese economy and society have encouraged adult children to choose this living arrangement over marriage or independent living. Parents, as well, have a number of motives to go along with their children s choices. Women in the Japanese Labor Force Women today continue to face issues and challenges when it comes to job opportunities, career and family, even though the status of working women has become more widely accepted in many societies. Working women in Japan face similar challenges to those of working women in other industrial societies. Ecologically-unschooled leaders in both countries believe it will be America.
Immigration is minuscule, so births and deaths alone determine the population size.
Assuming they stay constant, Japan's population will peak in 2005 at 130 million, and diminish by 2100 to 55 million.