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GRAYING POPULATION

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 10, 2022
Forget about Brad Pitt in his latest movie; the bullet train is the real star
A new movie finally gives top billing to Japan's most famous train. But it comes during troubled times for the fabled Shinkansen.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 19, 2019
The economic challenge of Japan's aging crisis
What should the Abe administration do to mitigate the damage?
EDITORIALS
Jan 22, 2019
Addressing serious recidivism among the elderly
Repeat offenses by the nation's elderly population are an increasingly serious problem that demands attention and action.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2018
Think tank says applicants for planned blue-collar visas should have college degrees
A newly launched think tank researching policies for accepting more foreign workers said Monday that as a condition for new visa statuses currently being discussed in the Diet, the government should require prospective applicants to have a college degree.
EDITORIALS
Jun 26, 2018
Fill the gap in nursing care workers
Action must be taken now to ensure the supply of nursing care workers meets the rapidly rising demand.
COMMENTARY / World
May 30, 2018
Making the most of Asia's aging populations
With the right policies, Asian economies can mitigate the risks of this demographic trend and capitalize on their 'silver dividend' to become more productive, resilient and dynamic than ever.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Apr 14, 2018
Japan faces up to the prospect of losing a middle-class war
Modern middle-class life, you could reasonably argue, generates more happiness among more people than any other ever conceived. It has been extravagantly derided — as bourgeois, soulless, spiritless, narrow, boring, mindlessly acquisitive and so on. But back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when 90 percent of Japanese proudly identified themselves as middle class, the prevailing feeling was of past sorrows overcome en route to an ever-brightening, ever-expanding future.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 2, 2017
Japan has to spend a little less on its well-off elderly
Lowering pension and medical benefits to well-off elderly people looks like Japan's least-bad option to rein in its debt.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 20, 2017
Japan's booming and now needs more immigrants
Japan is favoring more machines over increased immigration to bolster its dwindling workforce, but that solution won't increase domestic consumption.
EDITORIALS
Jan 10, 2017
Redefining the 'elderly' age
As the rapid graying of Japan's population continues, a proposal has been made to redefine the "elderly" age to be in line with people's changing perceptions as to when their golden years begin. In the face of mushrooming social security costs in an aging society, the government plans to start making elderly people with incomes above certain levels shoulder a greater burden of their medical and nursing-care expenses. These moves may indeed reflect the improved health and changing lifestyles of today's senior citizens. But they also need to be accompanied by greater efforts to secure job opportunities and other services for people who can and are willing to remain active in their advanced years.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2016
Brexit vote demonstrated the power of the old
Seniors have a unique set of interests and understanding of economic trade-offs — all of which policymakers ignore at their peril.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2016
Social engineering backfires on graying China
China's powerful bureaucrats are finding that human behavior cannot be fully controlled or predicted.
EDITORIALS
Nov 2, 2015
Beijing scraps the one-child policy
The one-child policy may be gone in China, but the the one-child mentality remains.
EDITORIALS
Oct 18, 2015
Leaving jobs for nursing care
The Abe administration needs to take concrete steps to stem the flow of people who quit their jobs because they must care for ailing relatives.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2015
The future is gray for the developed world
Over the next three decades, the developed world is set to contend with many challenges related to rapid societal aging
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 14, 2015
How to cope with Japan's demographic transformation
Japan must take steps to make it easier for women to work while raising families and to extend the nation's healthy life expectancy.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2015
Is the U.S. government going back to the 1930s?
The U.S. government is slowly becoming an agency for taking care of the elderly.
EDITORIALS
Jun 15, 2015
Migration of elderly residents
Should the government promote the migration of the greater Tokyo area's elderly residents to rural parts of the country to avert a crisis in welfare services for senior citizens?
EDITORIALS
Apr 7, 2015
Battling the low birthrate
Government efforts to increase the nation's birthrate must be sustained over the long-term to be successful.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 4, 2015
Countermeasures for Japan's changing demographics
The government can no longer afford to postpone efforts to effectively address Japan's population problem.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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