See South Korea for the Speedrun.

S. Korea has some of the highest populations per sqkm on the planet. One of the problems they’re facing is the lack of real estate.

If Japan goes to 80M in a generation, that’s very very bad for the chances of there being any Japanese people left in a few more generations

A generation ago, people were talking about the perils of overpopulation, particularly in highly dense countries like Japan and Korea.

It’s so bizarre to see a marginal shift in trends lead people to extrapolate an extinction level event.