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Written By: guyjin on September 11, 2009 No Comment

The other day I mentioned in passing that Japan’s aging society is going to be an increasingly important issue for the Japanese health system. Today I’d like to look at this a little more positively. Today the government released details of 40,399 people aged over 100 in Japan this month, which is more than 4,000 more than [...]

Written By: guyjin on September 8, 2009 10 Comments

Blaine Harden had an article in the Washington Post yesterday, which focuses on health care in Japan. It is an attempt to be balanced, but I feel that it relies a little too much on anecdotes, and misses some very significant points. The story finishes with a perplexed, ordinary Japanese woman [...]

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