It’s a combination of the old people living for ever and the young people not doing their duty in the sprogs department. The first is due to getting almost everything you need for longevity- being married, keeping busy, close family ties, a healthy diet and an okay health service. The latter is a combination of the difficulties of getting married and having kids (expensive accommodation and education,difficulties in meeting people and hooking up) and an extreme version of a self-sacrificing generation spawning a self-indulgent one. Other factors include very low rates of pre-marital birth and unmarried couples, women who have babies still being expected to stop work, the difficulties of obtaining credit,and the even more risk averse younger generation not making a move without the increasingly rare permanent contract, mortgage and stack of savings.
Why does Japan have the world’s fastest aging population?
April 22, 2008 at 6:57 am (Japan FAQs and SAQs, Japanese children, Japanese families, Japanese food and drink, Japanese health, Japanese health care, Japanese mothers, Japanese old people, Japanese parents, Japanese property market, Japanese social problems, Japanese teenagers, Japanese women)
Gaijin stat of the day
January 11, 2008 at 11:00 pm (Gaijin/ gaikokujin/ foreigners in Japan, Japan by numbers, Japan FAQs and SAQs, Japanese accommodation, Japanese social problems, Racism in Japan)
