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Simply put, Japan's population is getting older. Here in the U.S., we have teenage pregancy, widespread acceptance of single parenthood, and Mexico to thank for our younger population.
It's going to hit here soon enough... and it's going to be expensive because prisoners who may have paid into Medicare and Medicaid don't get benefits nor do their keepers....
Comments (8)
This gives the "three strikes you are out" a whole new perspective.
Posted by Julie | December 6, 2010 1:28 PM
I think there's comprehensive health care at Guantanamo if that gives you any good ideas.
Posted by Allan L. | December 6, 2010 2:12 PM
"population is aging in Japan faster than anywhere else"
Is Japan engulfed in some sort of time warp where its citizens age faster than the rest of the world?
Posted by none | December 6, 2010 2:47 PM
It's the atomic weapons Truman dropped on them, man. Also have a higher proportion of radioactive monsters on the loose.
Posted by John Fairplay | December 6, 2010 3:30 PM
I imagine it means they had something like our baby boom, none. Individuals aren't aging faster, but the average age of their citizens may be rising.
Posted by Aaron | December 6, 2010 7:04 PM
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/japans-low-birth-rate-poses-demographic-dilemma-2010-03-18
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/handbook/c02cont.htm
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100105f1.html
Simply put, Japan's population is getting older. Here in the U.S., we have teenage pregancy, widespread acceptance of single parenthood, and Mexico to thank for our younger population.
Posted by Erik H. | December 6, 2010 9:17 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States#Aging
It's going to hit here soon enough... and it's going to be expensive because prisoners who may have paid into Medicare and Medicaid don't get benefits nor do their keepers....
Posted by LucsAdvo | December 6, 2010 10:28 PM
Careful. Your next door neighbor may be Patrick McGoohan, and he's going to be yelling at all hours about Number Two getting off his lawn.
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | December 7, 2010 3:55 PM