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Japan Gone Grey

This week Global Business is in Japan, a country that is growing old fast. In addition it鈥檚 population is shrinking too. Peter Day reports on Japan鈥檚 plans for dealing with the problem.

This year Japan鈥檚 baby boomers all reach retirement age, 65. Not a problem in the past when the young were able to take their place. But now young people aren鈥檛 having babies due to lack of employment and the elderly are living at least 20 years beyond retirement but most Japanese people live for at least another 20 years. Peter Day reports from Tokyo and Shikoku Island on how the Japanese are managing a problem that will soon be a problem for us all.

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Sun 17 Jun 2012 14:32GMT

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