MIEKO TERADA moved to Tama in 1976, at about the same time as everyone else there. Back then, the fast-growing city in Tokyo’s suburban fringe was busy with young married couples and children. These days, however, the strip of shops where Ms Terada runs a café is deathly quiet, her clientele elderly.
A recent Japanese government survey found that over 40 % of young people aged between 18 to 34 in Japan are virgins. But why are so many of the country's millennials abstaining?
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The brutal intervention in citizens’ reproductive rights created many cultural and financial barriers to having larger families. Removing the legal one will now make little difference
The territory south of Rome, that includes many of Italy’s most enchanting places, in Sicily, Puglia and Campania, is fading away; choked by corruption, its economy mired in recession and its communities corroded by unemployment. The birth rate is at the lowest in history; you might say the beautiful south is dying.
What if old people could be viewed as an economic resource? Entrepreneurs in Japan are exploring robotics and other innovations to unleash the potential of the elderly.
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