Japan has been struggling to deal with a mixture of anaemic financial progress and a shrinking inhabitants for over 30 years. 2025 marks the tipping level when the rising prices outstrip the nation’s capability to pay for them. The FT’s Tokyo bureau chief Leo Lewis seems at how the nation has managed its gradual burning demographic disaster and what the remainder of the world can be taught from its expertise
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00:00 – Introduction
01:06 – Japan’s inhabitants alarm
01:54 – Understanding the 2025 drawback
02:38 – Comparing worldwide fertility charges
03:37 – Fuwaku, the rugby membership for the over 70s
05:36 – Seijin-no Hi, Japan’s coming of age pageant
06:17 – The hyperlink between beginning charges and marriage
07:25 – Okunitama shrine and the price of getting married
08:24 – The hyperlink between fertility and wages
10:14 – The Tokyo authorities’s relationship app
11:03 – Kiricafe and the rising variety of immigrants in Japan
14:01 – Rising authorities spending on the aged
15:07 – Unicharm: from child nappies to grownup diapers
16:01 – Ito En: making tea for the aged
16:41 – House Boat Club: altering funeral traditions
17:53 – China’s related demographic path to Japan
19:10 – Is Japan’s expertise what success seems like?
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