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Editorials Aug 3, 2019

Women are better off when it comes to working in Japan, but there is still huge room for improvement.

Commentary / Japan Jul 28, 2019

The problem of investing pension funds in JGBs

by Masaharu Takenaka

It is premature to think that a decline in the public pension benefits is inevitable given to the aging of the population and the low birthrate.

Commentary / World Jul 21, 2019

South Korea foreshadows global slowdown

by Noah Smith

With countries such as South Korea leading the way, a new age of slow growth and increased dependency burdens is in the offing.

Editorials Jul 17, 2019

Address Japan's demographic challenges

Even though there's an election this Sunday, politicians aren't engaging in active discussions on ways to address Japan's demographic woes.

Editorials Jul 13, 2019

Regional revitalization goes slow

The government needs to review its regional revitalization efforts over the past five years to see if it's taking the right steps to achieve the intended goal.

Commentary / World Jul 13, 2019

In praise of demographic decline

Our expanding ability to automate human work across all sectors makes an ever-growing workforce increasingly irrelevant to improvements in human welfare. That's good news for most of the world, but not for Africa.

National Jul 3, 2019

Doing the 'I turn': Japan taps tourism to lure city dwellers to emptying villages

by Rina Chandran

Yoshifumi Yano was tiring of the high cost of living and long hours of work at a travel firm in the city of Osaka when he heard of a hotel for sale in a small town nearby in Wakayama Prefecture that was known for ...