depopulation

Even though there's an election this Sunday, politicians aren't engaging in active discussions on ways to address Japan's demographic woes.

The government needs to review its regional revitalization efforts over the past five years to see if it's taking the right steps to achieve the intended goal.

Our expanding ability to automate human work across all sectors makes an ever-growing workforce increasingly irrelevant to improvements in human welfare. That's good news for most of the world, but not for Africa.

Various challenges lie ahead to keep senior citizens motivated to work longer and under decent conditions.

The government is doing a poor job of fixing the ever-worsening problem of unused houses.

Efforts need to be launched at the national, municipal and community levels, involving both public and private sector resources, to ensure that elderly people who living alone will remain connected with their communities and society at large.