AS POLICY wonks across the developed world fret about aging populations and overtaxed social welfare systems, America’s future has already arrived in Japan, where the labor force has started to shrink. The percentage of Japan’s residents over age 65 is closing in on 25 percent — a level that makes Florida seem youthful by comparison. But so far the country hasn’t declared bankruptcy or erupted in cataclysmic generational warfare.
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