Japan will lose 62,000 rural communities
We all know of Japan’s aging population and the predicted population decline within Japan. One of the consequences is that tens of thousands of villages in rural Japan are threatened with extinction.
According to a Japanese government survey last year, a whopping 62,000 communities are listed as “on the edge”, where mass migration to urban areas had robbed them of the young, leaving behind only the old and the very old. These are places where parents in their nineties are cared for by their children who are in their seventies and where schools have closed because there are no more young kids.
More on this story at the Timesonline.
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September 4th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Anywhere outside of Tokyo and even in some parts of Tokyo is like this, majority old people but they still look very healthy and strong to me.