TOKYO – The statistics make for grim reading: the proverbial train hurtling towards an inevitable crash unless drastic policy steps beyond the current stopgap measures are taken.
As Japan celebrates Respect for the Aged Day in September with a record number of elderly people – one that is getting rewritten every year – it is battered by other unwanted records.
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