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in the long run the fortunes of nations are determined by population trends. Japan is not only the world's fastest-aging major economy (already every fourth person is older than 65, and by 2050 that share will be nearly 40 percent), its population is also declining. Today's 127 million will shrink to 97 million by 2050, and forecasts show shortages of the young labor force needed in construction and health care. Who will maintain Japan's extensive and admirably efficient transportation infrastructures? Who will take care of millions of old people? By 2050 people above the age of 80 will outnumber the children.
Who will take care of millions of old people? Robots!
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Japan Has Aged Out of its Economic Miracle
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(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Thursday August 27 2015, @10:11PM
Given Japan's history, their xenophobia is quite reasonable. They have usually been independent, and have been repeatedly attacked by outsiders. (Yeah, more recently in WWII they returned the favor, but that's ONE instance. Japan has a long history of repelling invaders. Sort of like Britain, only more successfully.)
Yea, you should probably check again. Japan first invaded Korea in the 16th century, and Korea was actually run as a colony of Japan starting around 1910 (they were a part of the Japanese Empire from some time in the 1850's). So Japan's imperialism goes back much further than you give them credit for.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2015, @11:30PM
Yeah. For the last 700 years, Japan has pretty much always been the aggressor. [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday August 28 2015, @12:53AM
And Britain invaded France, and ran part of France as, essentially, a colony. (Ever hear of Joan of Arc?) But Britain was invaded by the Norse, the Danes, and Angles, the Romans, The French (though you could claim those were Norse, the one's I mean started out from Normandy).
Nobody's ancestors were peaceful. Only some of them. That goes for countries as well as people. But Japan was more successful at fighting off invasions than Britain was, probably because their "channel" was a lot wider.
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