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Japan's children output
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Additional reading: http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ped-having-sex
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This is horrifying and disturbing news. With such a low birth rate and dwindling supply of young people, video game music veterans (Nobuo Uematsu etc) will be unable to pass on their skills and experience to the next generation, assuming one will exist in the first place.
How will the increasing gap between Japan's elderly and youth population affect Japanese video game music output? Or is this the beginning of the end of Japanese video game music as we know it? |
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I'm not an expert on the subject but I imagine that dwindling birth rates in developed countries has way, way more to do with socio-economic reasons than anything else. Quote:
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The problem is that it stagnates the economy, which isn't so good for the Japanese game industry (if choosing to look at it from a narrow perspective). Reality is, people age 65 and up don't pay taxes and certainly aren't buying new videogames.
Japan went through a boom period in the 80's and early 90's, then went into a deep recession. They have largely been flat since then. It's not unlike what the US is going through now, where the Federal Reserve is keeping us from sinking further, yet the signs of economic growth are tepid at best. I have seen a number of indicators that show the US is mirroring Japan. |
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Our current resources can't actually sustain the current gross birthrate, so a declining birthrate is really something to celebrate. It's not as if Japanese people--or anyone else, for that matter--is on the verge of extinction.
The Guardian article isn't actually about birthrate, but about intimacy, and the two topics really ought not to be conflated (people in relationships can be intimate and have lots of sex without needing to have babies, and should be encouraged to do so). However, there is something here that's very relevant for us as VGM fans: Quote:
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Didn't Yoko Shimomura go freelance (i.e. quit her regular job and probably start working mostly at home) when she got pregnant and Miki Higashino retired because she wanted to as well? There are probably more, known and unknown.
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A lot of long time female composers indeed work as freelance from home, implying they do it as a "side job" while family comes first. Some male ones as well.
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Just to clarify, my previous post was posted with faux-seriousness along with an intentionally lame attempt to link the subject of human depopulation to the state of Japanese video game music. This was done because the writer of that post (i.e. me) was amused to see the subject brought up in the first place, on a humble video game music forum no less, as opposed to say, other forums/sites more suited to discuss such a thing (note how the vast majority of the Miscellaneous Discussion forum intended "for the discussion of various other topics" still mainly center around music and CDs).
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