Something exceedingly tragic is occurring in Japan today, something it falls to me to reveal now on these pages. It is, simply, that the Japanese people are becoming invisible before our very eyes. At the present rate, by my rough estimate, not one single identifiable Japanese individual will be living in Japan by 2030.
If you think this is another of those articles bemoaning the plummeting birthrate in Japan, and how Japanese people should be conjugating a lot more than English verbs, you are sorely mistaken. This is about something far graver than the lack of moaning in Japan.
Let me explain how I came to my dire conclusion about "the invisible Japanese."