This decline in social welfare funding is severely aggravated by a declining birthrate, and an ageing population with one of the world’s highest life expectancy rates. The strain this puts on society is threefold, placing a bigger burden on an already stretched health-care system, causing a shrinking work force and an overall drop in productivity. For Japanese society is ageing rapidly, at one of the fastest rates in the world ; With a low birthrate, shrinking workforce, long life expectancy and a baby boomer generation fast approaching retirement age, Japan’s younger people are going to be unable to fund the countries social welfare system. What do you think need to be done ?

