* * * * * * * * * T E R R I E 'S T A K E * * * * * * *<br>A weekly roundup of news & information from Terrie Lloyd.<br>(<a href="http://www.terrie.com">http://www.terrie.com</a>)<br><br>General Edition Sunday, May 06, 2012, Issue No. 660<br>
<br>+++ INDEX<br><br>- What's New -- Waiting Forever for Kids Day Care<br>- News -- Live piranha caught in Kanagawa river<br>- Upcoming Events<br>- Corrections/Feedback <br>- Travel Destinations Picks -- Tochigi and Hokkaido<br>
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released data showing that the nation's population <br>decreased by 204,000 people during 2011. This was the first<br>time that the decrease has exceeded 200,000 and was put <br>down to both the Tohoku disaster (deaths and departing <br>
foreigners) as well as the falling birthrate. This is not <br>news for any of us, but it was interesting to hear that <br>the trend of decreasing births is accelerating again, after<br>a temporary uptick 4-5 years ago. The government said that <br>
the population of kids under 15 fell for the 31st year in <br>a row, to 16.65m. More tellingly just 1,057,000 kids were <br>born in 2011 -- which implies that in the next 15 years the<br>number of kids will be around 13m or so, a fall of 15%-17%. <br>
<br>Now this is a big number. If you were to apply it to the <br>Japanese population as a whole, we could be looking at a <br>lot less than the Health Ministry's projection of 95m <br>living souls in Japan in 2050. Instead, if you take 2 and a<br>
bit generations of childbirth reducing at a rate of 17% per <br>generation, you get a compound number which could result in<br>a population falling to 80m-85m people. That has to <br>be a problem.<br><br>The Ministry recently went into more detail about the <br>
distribution of the under-15's population. As could be <br>expected, the drop in kids was uniform over most of the <br>country, with only Tokyo and Fukuoka seeing increases. We <br>imagine those increases were mainly due to continued <br>
migration of rural families to the cities in search of <br>better paid jobs and services, and, due to families fleeing<br>Fukushima for the perceived safety and opportunity of <br>Tokyo. Indeed, this latter point can be partly confirmed by<br>
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has the highest percentage of kids under 15, at 17.7% -- <br>the result of more sun, surf, and potent sake perhaps? :-)<br>At the same time, Tokyo and Akita have the lowest <br>percentages, at 11.3%. Japan is also apparently the country<br>
with the lowest ratio of kids in the world, amongst <br>countries with populations of 40m or more.<br><br>OK, so the falling birthrate is a problem. There has been <br>plenty of jawboning about why: young Japanese being too shy<br>
or germ-averse to want to have sex, an increase in women <br>with careers and fun single lives not wanting to trade them<br>in for married servitude, and married couples simply <br>realizing that having kids is expensive. Take your pick, <br>
all of these options reflect the increasing diversity of <br>Japanese society.<br><br>But what about the couples that DO want a "passel" of kids?<br>The desire to have kids is still alive and well as far as <br>
we can see, and there are plenty of young women who are <br>willing to head back to the workforce to earn sufficient <br>family income to support that desire -- if only they could.<br>It's not like the legislation isn't there. For some time <br>
now, it has been law for companies have to give women at <br>least one year of maternity leave, and up to 18 months if <br>they are having trouble to find a day care facility. No, <br>the problem seems to be that women are unable to find <br>
places to put their young children so that they can help <br>out rebuild the family income in between kids. <br><br>Again, it's no news that there are huge waiting lists for <br>urban mothers to get their kids into day care centers. <br>
Especially for mothers with kids under 18 months. They are <br>the most desperate, because if they can't get day care, <br>they will lose their jobs and have to re-start their <br>careers in the open job market after a 5-6 year break. The <br>
Welfare Ministry says that that as of April 2011, there <br>were 25,556 kids who couldn't get into day care. This <br>doesn't include those whose mothers just swallowed the <br>1.5x-2x extra cost of putting their kids into private day <br>
care, but does include those whose moms are forced to <br>stay home and prioritize the kids over work -- with the <br>inevitable result that those families can't afford to <br>have a second or third child even though they may want<br>
one.<br><br>If you look at the statistics over the last 15 years, <br>there has been an ongoing backlog of kids waiting to get <br>into day care, at one point in 1997 it was around 40,500 <br>kids, but then the government monkeyed with the <br>
statistics and the number magically dropped to <br>21,200 in 2001. It's been hovering around 25,000 mark ever<br>since (although from the earlier statistical method, the<br>real number is probably more like 40,000 kids wait listed).<br>
<br>The government reckons that the problem is not enough day <br>care centers, and says it is prioritizing the building of <br>new government-run centers as well as licencing of <br>contracted operators. They also recognize a lack of <br>
qualified staff, and are trying to recruit child care <br>workers. Apparently out of the 1m or so qualified child day<br>care workers in Japan, only 370,000 are in active <br>employment. Our guess is that at least 20% are retired <br>
already and the rest are either at home looking after their<br>own kids or are sick of being low-paid temps in their <br>industry and are working for one of the private companies <br>making headway in this sector. Anyway, as a result, for <br>
government-run day care centers there are currently 10.87 <br>open jobs per qualified applicant. For the welfare <br>sector as a whole the ratio is 2.66.<br><br>There might also be another good reason for the big backlog<br>
of kids. While it's great to be building day care <br>facilities and hiring staff, if you don't put them where <br>the customers (the young mothers) are, then they are not <br>going to be used properly. So it was with interest that we <br>
came across a study done in 2011 by one Mizuki <br>Kawabata of the Center for Spatial Information Science at <br>Todai (University of Tokyo). Ms. Kawabata reckons that <br>there is a basic mismatch of what mothers need and what the<br>
authorities are providing and she has the statistics to <br>prove it.<br><br><a href="http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dp/107.pdf">http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dp/107.pdf</a><br><br>The study is very comprehensive, covering every ward of <br>
Tokyo, and finds that mothers of young children are unable <br>to commute the long distances necessary to put their kids <br>in day care. Mainly this is because they are reluctant to <br>commute by car, because there is no parking and because the <br>
day care centers themselves discourage parents from <br>using vehicles. Therefore, if the day care centers in <br>areas where there are high-density housing projects with <br>lots of young families are full, which they always are, <br>
then even though there may be a relatively empty day care <br>facility one suburb over, mothers are not going to travel <br>more than about 10-15 minutes by foot to use the second <br>center. Yes, they have bicycles, but apparently rain and <br>
child sickness both mean that walking distance is the <br>measure of comfort a mother will use if they are to put <br>their kid into a day care center.<br><br>Therefore, it seems rather obvious from this study why the <br>
government has been unable over the last 15 years to lower <br>the number of kids waiting to get into day care. It <br>appears to be providing the wrong resources in the wrong <br>places, and needs to learn from this study. Actually, the <br>
Mizuki study is really quite logical and comes to some <br>useful conclusions. If you're interested in this topic, <br>we recommend reading it.<br><br><br>...The information janitors/<br><br>***------------------------****-------------------------***<br>
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<br>+++ NEWS<br><br>- Live piranha caught in Kanagawa river<br>- Cesium found in 51 food items<br>- 8 die in late-season snow storm<br>- Sales of bread exceeds rice for first time<br>- Possible gas pipeline from Vladivostok<br>
<br><br><br>-> Live piranha caught in Kanagawa river<br><br>Look before you jump in the local river this summer -- <br>residents caught 3 piranha fish in the Zenmyo River in <br>Atsugi last weekend. The fish were around 10cm long, <br>
indicating they were either fully grown adults or juveniles<br>close to adulthood. Either way, there are probably more of <br>them and they may well breed, so local authorities have <br>warned parents to not let their kids bath in the river. <br>
***Ed: Makes you wonder what the person who released these <br>fish was thinking? Not much, obviously.** (Source: TT <br>commentary from <a href="http://japantimes.co.jp">japantimes.co.jp</a>, May 3, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120503a4.html">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120503a4.html</a><br>
<br>-> Cesium found in 51 food items<br><br>The Health Ministry has announced that 51 food items were <br>found to contain cesium exceeding the new health limits <br>introduced on April 1, 2012. The failed items were detected<br>
in 337 tests out of a total of 13,867 tests, or about 2.4%.<br>Of the failed tests, 55 were found to exceed 500 <br>becquerels/kg. ***Ed: We'd like to know what the <br>excessively contaminated products were. Also, as a side <br>
note, Japan's food limits for Cesium contamination are <br>about 3x more strict than the USA or Europe, so you do have<br>to feel a bit sorry for those food producers whose products<br>are only marginally in excess and who then have to destroy <br>
the food. Still, it's nice to know that the new regulations<br>will ensure that radiation in the food chain is not <br>something we have to keep worrying about.** (Source: TT <br>commentary from <a href="http://kyodonews.jp">kyodonews.jp</a>, May 1, 2012)<br>
<br><a href="http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/05/155836.html">http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/05/155836.html</a><br><br>-> 8 die in late-season snow storm<br><br>A late-season snow storm that hit the Mt. Korenge area in <br>
Nagano, resulting in 8 people from two parties of climbers <br>being killed. The climbers died of hypothermia and were <br>aged in their 60's and 70's. There were apparently climbing<br>the 2,932m Shiroumadake peak. ***Ed: What's interesting <br>
about this article is that as it was reported in the USA, <br>the newspaper said that the climbers were "elderly". <br>Obviously if they were climbing a 3km-high mountain, they <br>were far from 'elderly' despite their ages. Just goes to <br>
show how "genki" Japanese retired folks are these days.** <br>(Source: TT commentary from <a href="http://google.com">google.com</a>, May 5, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://bit.ly/J69fpl">http://bit.ly/J69fpl</a> <br>
<br>-> Sales of bread exceeds rice for first time<br><br>The Internal Affairs Ministry has released stats showing <br>that the average Japanese household is now spending more on<br>bread, around (JPY28,091), than it is on rice (JPY27,780). <br>
This is the first time that bread consumption per household<br>has exceeding rice consumption. The Ministry puts the <br>cut-backs in rice consumption to general dietary trends as <br>well as the public's ongoing concern about rice safety <br>
after the Fukushima nuclear power plant explosions. ***Ed: <br>If rice was priced at the same rates as overseas, this <br>dietary change would have been noticed years ago. Therein <br>lies the problem, in fact. Japanese rice is just too <br>
expensive compared to grains from other sources.** (Source:<br>TT commentary from <a href="http://telegraph.co.uk">telegraph.co.uk</a>, May 4, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://tgr.ph/IMR4c0">http://tgr.ph/IMR4c0</a> <br><br>-> Possible gas pipeline from Vladivostok<br>
<br>A Japanese Diet delegation has apparently had preliminary <br>discussions with Gazprom about the idea of building a <br>seabed-based direct pipeline from Vladivostok to Japan. <br>The discussion comes as Japan's last nuclear reactor has <br>
been shut down and all electricity is now once again being <br>generated with hydrocarbons. Natural gas is the preferred <br>resource for power generation, and Japan consumes about <br>95-100 bcm of LNG annually, making it the largest importer <br>
of the fuel. ***Ed: The Russians already have massive gas <br>pipelines strung across Europe, so apart from cost, there <br>doesn't seem to be a major impediment to installing a <br>pipeline sometime in the next 10 years.(Source: TT <br>
commentary from <a href="http://rt.com">rt.com</a>, May 4, 2012)<br><br><a href="http://rt.com/business/news/gazprom-japan-pipeline-project-570/">http://rt.com/business/news/gazprom-japan-pipeline-project-570/</a><br><br>
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<br>The Akechi-daira ropeway is one of the best viewpoints to <br>see the Nikko valley. It's on the way to Chuzen-ji Lake <br>from downtown Nikko and from the highest vantage point, you<br>can see all of Mt. Nantai, Kegon-no-taki Falls, and <br>
Chuzen-ji Lake in one extraordinary frame. At the top, the <br>west view consists of Chuzen-ji Lake and Kegon-no-taki <br>Falls. Chuzen-ji Onsen in particular features a lot of <br>historical inns and hotels, restaurants, and souvenir <br>
shops.<br><br><a href="http://japantourist.jp/view/nikko-s-akechi-daira-ropeway">http://japantourist.jp/view/nikko-s-akechi-daira-ropeway</a><br><br>Rishiri Island, Hokkaido<br><br>No trip to Wakkanai is complete without a stopover at <br>
either Rishiri island or Rebun island, so Rishiri it was. <br>We had planned on taking the car across on the ferry, but <br>given the price to take our vehicle we decided to leave it <br>in the carpark. Armed with a daypack, we made the journey <br>
across the Sea of Japan from Hokkaido's mainland to <br>Oshidomari Port on Rishiri island.<br><br>The September skies were wonderfully clear and blue, <br>perfect for taking a few scenic shots as we traveled <br>across the water. On approaching the island, it’s pretty <br>
hard to ignore the volcanic (thankfully, dormant) mountain,<br>aptly named Mount Rishiri, which takes centerpiece on the <br>island. Upon arrival, right outside the ferry terminal we <br>hired rental bikes that only cost 2000 yen for 24 hours. We<br>
now had wheels – making the uphill journey to our camping <br>ground a struggle, but definitely faster than walking. The <br>camping area is atop a large hill, which is a little <br>hard going on the bikes, but the view is worthwhile.<br>
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