Demographic train wreck: Will Japan throw its old people on the tracks? WashTimesOpEd
One-third of Japanese are over 65. One in 5 live alone. More than 30,000 die alone each year. A small industry has sprung up to remove their remains.
In such a situation, ice floes look increasingly inviting. Professor Yusuke Narita, who is 38, told The New York Times in a Feb. 12 interview: “I feel like the solution is pretty clear. In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass seppuku of the elderly?” But Japan also has a low marriage rate, a precursor of a low birthrate. Will the government set up Vegas-style wedding chapels where couples can be united by Elvis impersonators? Can young couples be bribed to have children?
Ailing Asian dragons are at the forefront of what could be the great plague of the 21st century. But the West can’t afford to be complacent. America’s fertility rate has fallen to 1.6. Over the past decade, fewer babies have been born each year — the first time that’s happened since we began keeping records.
James Cameron, director of the noble-savage Avatar movies, told Time magazine that he can “relate to Thanos,” the villain in Marvel’s Infinity Wars, who wants to wipe out half of all life in the universe, in the belief that population growth is unsustainable.
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