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Java is not the only statically typed language, and some statically typed languages are almost phenomenally concise.

If you're referring to Haskell and the likes, sadly they're not nearly as prevalent.

See Scala for a concise static typed language.

Or others. A lot of people seem to think of Java when they immediately think that static typed code has to be very verbose. Much of the verbosity of Java comes out of design decisions that were made by choice-Java does a lot to limit the programmer's power, for better or worse (Pretty much entirely worse when working with competent programmers)

That is most definitely Java's fault for lacking good abstractions. Try Haskell or C#- much higher content:code.