2000s in Japan

Video games released and/or developed in Japan would see an improvement with their physics engines, their artificial intelligence, and see their graphics become high definition.

[6] The average price of gasoline at the end of the 2000s would be $8/gallon; making it unaffordable for most Japanese people to drive long distances unless necessary.

Japanese employers and companies made up for the labor shortages in the 1990s by hiring temporary workers without security or job benefits.

[12] Poets and musicians write down thoughts in their cell phones and memorize them for work or home.

[12] People use cell phones in Japan to find apartments for rent, follow the results of each and every Sumo match, download horoscopes, and check out the most popular pop music songs on the charts.

Young people lacking money and living space to properly reproduce is just one of many reasons the birth rate plummeted starting in the year 2005.

[13] However, the most recent rise in the national birth rate of Japan happened in February 2007.

This village is the only Japanese municipality in this decade to contradict the national population decline in Japan.