Friends, have you ever thought that you might have a primary school diploma for a handful of lamb kebabs in your hand?
This is not some whimsy, an elementary school in Iza City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, really recruited a little sheep to go to school, not only did they have a special entrance ceremony, but the principal also called "bleating" to welcome new students.
This wave of outrageous operations, I have to say, is really Japanese.
Japanese sheep also have to go to elementary school?
We have also done social practice classes, what to observe the life of silkworm babies, to add a new member to the family, are some entertaining projects, parents generally do not object too much.
But isn't raising sheep a little too lively? Do you still think of sheep as a new classmate? How can children look directly at hot pot and lamb skewers in the future?
For a long time to come, the school's teachers, together with the eight students, will take on the entire responsibility of taking care of the lambs. I don't know if it was to increase the sense of participation, the principal also gave the sheep a name, called "Xiao Nan".
8 students? Does it mean that you have to be admitted to the top eight in the whole school, and you have to take care of the qualifications of this little sheep?
If you want to grow with this sheep, you don't need to have a high threshold, and the reason why you say 8 students is because there are only 8 students in this school.
Isn't this school too small? Are you fully qualified? Can the hardware keep up?
Don't look at the lack of students, the qualifications and hardware are not bad at all, the auditorium, gymnasium and all kinds of facilities are available, and the large playground can let the children have fun. Nanyong Elementary School in Iza City is a real municipal elementary school, in our words, it is a public elementary school.
There are six grades in one elementary school with a total of 8 students. In the unlikely event that a student takes a leave of absence, the teachers of the entire year group will probably not have to go to work.
Speaking of which, everyone should reflect on why this school is recruiting a sheep as a new student.
Why doesn't this school recruit a few new children? Is it because you don't want to?
Because of the long-term negative population growth, there are not so many children in Japan. In addition, people continue to move to big cities in order to seek development, and the few children left have moved to big cities with their parents.
The population density of Iza City in Kagoshima Prefecture itself is not high, and it has encountered a general trend of declining birthrate, and these eight children are already very good.
How serious is Japan's childlessness?
Looking at the short video platform, there are many people who say that they don't want to get married and don't want to have children, but there are also many parents who show their babies, judging from the comment area, there are quite a lot of young people who want to have children.
Even so, our generation can feel the pressure of an aging society.
To give an inappropriate example, when the old community catches up with the dog days and the change of seasons, it is directly a white affair after a white event, except for the first two years when the second child was opened, there are many children in the community, and there is almost no shadow of the stroller in the community in the next few years.
Japan's aging population and declining birthrate are much more serious than China's.
In August 2023, Nikkei Chinese Network found an expert, who said that children born after 2005, the so-called "new generation", the probability of women not having children in a lifetime will reach up to 42%, and men are even more powerful, and nearly half of Japanese men may not have their own children in their lifetime.
With the rise of the economic level, people's values will change compared with their parents and mothers, and young people are more inclined to devote their energy to enjoying life and realizing their self-worth, which is understandable.
The problem is that Japan's declining birthrate seems to have come too early and lasted too long.
According to relevant data, Japan's Dink style began in the 70s of the last century, 27% of women born in 1970 have not had children as of 2023, and other developed countries such as Britain, France and the United States, the Dink rate hovers around 10%, even in Northern Europe, which has no obsession with childbearing, couples who do not have children have not exceeded 20%.
The most terrifying thing is that as of now, Japan's childlessness rate is still maintaining a rather crazy upward momentum, and the Dink trend in Britain, France and Germany has become much more stable, and even in the near future, these Europeans and Americans may also mention their enthusiasm for having children.
Based on current trends, it is likely that in a few years, Japan's childlessness rate may be more than double the average for developed countries.
The low birth rate will inevitably lead to a series of problems such as an aging society and a lack of labor, and the real challenges for Japan are yet to come.
Why don't Japanese people have children?
Due to a series of historical and geopolitical reasons, Japanese culture always bears a bit of the shadow of Chinese civilization.
Why, then, do young Japanese people believe in singleness so much today?
Singleness in Japan is not the same as in the mainland, and for most young Chinese, if they really meet the right person, it is not unacceptable to form a family and have children.
The Japanese seem to be more inclined to escape, as evidenced by the frequent abandonment of babies.
On the same day, there were cases of abandoned babies in Aichi and Hiroshima prefectures in Japan, and these poor little creatures were thrown in the fields and weeds until their bodies were completely cold and stiff, and they finally saw the light of day.
In order to give these abandoned babies a way to live, a hospital in Kumamoto City actually set up a "cradle for abandoned babies".
In 2019, there were 35 reported cases of abandoned babies, and those children who were not abandoned may not live happily.
There are many countries with low desire to have children, but the "misogyny" of the Japanese is a little too frustrating.
Why is this happening?
An economic bubble has made Japan experience 30 years of disappearance, countless middle-class families have lost their mortgages, countless small and medium-sized micro enterprises have gone bankrupt, and the overload of life pressure will not necessarily make people move forward, but may also make people psychologically perverted.
In contrast, people who choose Dink may be more suitable to have children, because they understand the responsibility of having children, and it is precisely because of the weight of the responsibility that they choose not to bear.
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