Japan to crackdown on WalMarts & COSTCOs

[Taro Toporific]

Meh, Maybe the 40-to-90 minute lines of people at Costco Tamasakai will get longer with fewer real stores in Japan.

Japan to crackdown on big suburban stores
Daily Times - 26-7-2005
Japan will try to stop the building of big shopping centers and hospitals in suburbs in hopes of halting the exodus from city centres before the population begins to shrink, officials said Monday....
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport would together submit legislation before parliament next year to tighten regulations against large new commercial and public facilities in suburbs, a trade ministry official said.
....A separate study earlier this month by the land ministry said the aging population in itself could help stop suburbanization. It predicted more people would be drawn into the cities as space became more plentiful, while suburbs would increasingly be domains for the elderly.

[IkemenTommy]

It seems like every other news posts on this forum these days has something to do with the population decrease.

[Taro Toporific]

It seems like every other news posts on this forum these days has something to do with the population decrease.

Yeh, get out there, do some breeding and post less. Hurry! I need your health insurance and social security money.

[IkemenTommy]

Yeh, get out there, do some breeding and post less. Hurry! I need your health insurance and social security money.

And this is the numbuh 1 poster on this thread speaking..

[Sarutaro]

I would think that people in the countryside are more likely to breed than the people in the metropolitan areas. Why don't they just impose a penalty tax on condoms?

[IkemenTommy]

I would think that people in the countryside are more likely to breed than the people in the metropolitan areas. Why don't they just impose a penalty tax on condoms?

That's the same thing as penalizing having sex and discourage people from having one.. yeah.. right.