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Hideo Kumano, chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute in Tokyo. In Japan, the results of elections are increasingly in the hands of older people—there are more of them, and they vote at higher rates than the young. (Bloomberg)
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Policymakers continue to focus on measures for senior citizens, partly because they have votes.
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sillygirl
Meanwhile we pay through the nose for fruits, vegetables, rice, and put up with the wrinkles blocking daycare and kindergarten facilities, parks and children playing outside because they don't want them around. Sick.
SenseNotSoCommon
Policymakers continue to focus on measures for senior citizens, because they have votes.
That's better.
Aly Rustom
Partly?? What other reason can there possibly be???
GW
Maybe Japan should consider people OVER a certain age are no longer able to vote...............I know crazy, but something has to be done so the country can survive, right now its looking pretty bad & set to get worse MUCH worse......
MsDelicious
How about showing us some stats on age and voting?
shallots
a country in decline, focused on today's old...the negative consequences are inevitable. I think the young have been trained to accept it. I doubt there is the will to create policies that rescue the future. Most likely, there will be a tipping point, after which, severe conditions will become more apparent and irreversible.
kohakuebisu
He's right, of course.
The Dai Ichi Seimei website publishes research by Kumano in pdf format. He writes on all manner of macro issues for Japan and includes lots of great data. If you can read Japanese, its usually a good read.
samwatters
"Maybe Japan should consider people OVER a certain age are no longer able to vote...............I know crazy, but something has to be done so the country can survive, right now its looking pretty bad & set to get worse MUCH worse......" Actually not a bad idea given the selfishness of the current group.