The country’s social security system is being redeveloped on the premise that aging and a shrinking population will continue. In September, Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Japan is gearing up to accept more foreign workers as its own population is on the brink of a steep decline. Kono t...
The article talks about the staggering figures of Japanese population that indicates a steep decline in the population as per the reports by National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. Topics include history of Japan, importance of demography for the nation's revitalization, ...
steep and steady downward slope; book sales are no higher than they were a decade ago despite a rise in population. still, manga is more influential in japan than network television is in the us. comics occupy the center, feeding the rest of the media system. if they dry up, other ...
Official projections call for steep increases in the payroll contribution rate. In contrast to the pension system, the Japanese health system has managed to deliver high-quality care at a relatively low cost as measured by health spending as a proportion of GDP. More must be done, however, to...
Only about 15 percent of the land is level enough for agriculture, and so the population density in coastal plains and valleys is extremely high. Because of the steep mountains, there are almost no navigable inland waterways. Demography. The population in 1999 was 127,000,000. The country...
is contributing to employment of a significant part of the population in majority nations, over the years, the percentage of workers has witnessed a steep decline. According to world-wide estimations, not even five percentage of the population in rich nations is employed in the agricultural sector...
The question looming over the market is how long Tokyo can prosper as population decline accelerates over the next decade. The capital’s population is still rising because of migration and is not projected to peak until 2020. After that the decline will be steep — but the trend so far is...
11. Caribou herd in Alaska suffering from mysterious decline, November 30, 2016, Noel Kirkpatrick,MNN Mother Nature Network, “The Central Arctic caribou herd in Alaska is experiencing a “steep decline” in its population, and scientists are researching the reasons why () .” ...
As construction material prices remain steep, we’re still seeing some cases where there are no successful bids for construction activities, but these are somewhat less common than before. We prepare budgets taking into account the ongoing high prices, and I believe we’re now doing well by com...
This isn’t much help when a user is trying to locate a specific store, take out cash at an ATM or find their way to the nearest restroom. Facing steep competition and a steady decline in downloads,Yahoo! JAPAN Mapssaw an opportunity to develop a new, high-quality version of their na...