Japan is known as ‘The Land of the Rising Sun’, well, whoever coined that phrase, got some splaing do do. Anyways, Japan is one of those countries where the elderly easily outweigh the population. The proportion of the elderly living alive and well in Japan compared to it’s younger people is relatively high. Around 24% of the population in Japan are currently 65 or older. It’s been estimated that by the year 2020, the ratio of its elderly citizens to children will be around 3 to 1. The Japanese have …
