Daibutsu, Kamakura

Daibutsu, Kamakura
Daibutsu in Kamakura, June 2010. There were thousands of school kids visiting that day. It was still great fun.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Shrinking Japan

Most of you are probably aware of Japan's impending population decline and it's rapidly aging society. You may have heard of some of the serious threats from this decline such as depopulating rural areas, a pyramid pension system on the road to collapse, a shrinking economy.

If you have not heard of this issue or not thought too much about it, I recommend you read this excellent blog article from Spike Japan. It's a long post but well worth the time as it does an excellent job of describing Japan's population problem from the point of view of rural Hokkaido.


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  1. otsuke2:33 PM

    Japan is the robot capital of the world. They will be fine in my opinion. The scary part is how life-like the robots are. I fell for one in Nagoya. She looked so human it was freaky. It was not until my lady told me it was robot.

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  2. owenandbenjamin2:40 PM

    It's true that due largely to Japan's aging and shrinking population, they will be the robotics leaders of the world for along time. That is except for military robots. I think the US will be the leader in military robot technology.

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