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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Kenishi posted:

senkaku islands stuff
Has there been a regression on this issue recently? I was talking with my ex-girlfriend in China today and apparently that's the main story on the news there along with the action in Libya. Is it as prominent in Japan?

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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Have we talked about the coming age demographic crisis yet? It's a real doozy. Yes, this first article is dated six months ago, but the first sentence really says it all.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-09/elderly-at-record-spurs-japan-stores-chase-1-4-trillion.html

Hold your adult baby jokes, please- especially since it portends a horrible economic future in Japan, and ultimately the world.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-next-panic/309081/?single_page=true

tl;dr- The elderly population holds a great deal of Japanese debt, and the government refuses to change the pension system to prevent the oncoming economic disaster.

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