“It is useless and sinful for women to live after menopause because they cannot reproduce children…Such humans are extremely harmful to the entire earth.” -Shintaro Ishihara, Governor of Tokyo (2011)
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As we begin our discussion on Japan’s declining population, women need to be addressed first and foremost. As we read in Rocheleau’s “Gender and the Environment”, there are set roles that women are given. To be closer to nature, the house, and the children. These values have been long enforced in Japanese society, and have molded the way that women perceive marriage, childbearing, and success.
I have broken up the categories of the Role of Women into:
Each page has more information and detail about how each of the women’s roles are affecting the population decline.