Posts Tagged ‘demographic decline’

The Bad News Bears Go To Japan

Fri Aug 15, 2008 15:45 GMT  | 1 Comment

One of my favourite historical quotes was uttered 63 years ago today, when Emperor Hirohito, in announcing to the nation Japan’s surrender in World War II, stated ‘… the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage’. Unfortunately, the same can be said of Japan’s Q2 2008 GDP data, which showed an annualised contraction… [Read more]

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Japan Aims To Boost Imports… Of People

Thu Jul 3, 2008 17:47 GMT  | 2 Comments

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) recently unveiled a bold proposal to take in 10 million immigrants between now and 2050, so that they will constitute 10% of the national population by that date. The idea is to make Japan a multi-ethnic society, and infuse the labour force with young people to offset the country’s… [Read more]

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