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 [...]
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Written By: guyjin on September 8, 2009
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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 [...]
