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More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

217 points · 282 comments · karakoram

  1. shoobiedoo · · focus · HN ↗
    This article calls it a "quiet emergency" but even as a foreigner living in Japan there are alarm bells everywhere. And the government buying 150 F35's is just a slap in the face when there's a massive chunk of the population that is, very quickly, going to need extra care.

    I looked into becoming a care aid myself as I'm tired of office culture in Japan and have some experience in that field. I was shocked to see that they start at less than 10USD, and working your way up takes years, decades even.

    Continuing to kick this can down the road is going to be an absolute disaster.

    1. stickfigure · · focus · HN ↗
      > buying 150 F35's

      Your immediate neighbor is going on an imperialist streak right now, and Xi says he wants the fireworks to start in his lifetime. I don't know if F35s are the right answer for Japan, but Xi isn't that young. Get ready however you can.

      1. r3trohack3r · · focus · HN ↗
        The ministry of propaganda in China runs an English language international news channel available as an IPTV stream (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tvexplorer.live&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tvexplorer.live&#x2F;)

        If you want a better understanding of which world events China is not happy about, tuning in there to see what they cover unfavorably has been useful for me.

        They seem to be very unhappy about Japan building up its war fighting capacity.

        1. philipov · · focus · HN ↗
          The person you&#x27;re afraid of conquering you not liking that you&#x27;re trying to defend yourself against conquest is not an argument against doing that.
          1. svpk · · focus · HN ↗
            I don&#x27;t think anything in their post said otherwise. I assumed they were just adding more evidence on to what the previous commenter was saying.
          2. djtango · · focus · HN ↗
            The strange and ironic thing here is that the subject and object of this statement can be either country.

            My wife is from Manchuria and my father is from Singapore. As much as my wife and I like the Japan of today, Japan appeared less favourably in our family history.

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