Japan is now officially Old As F*ck

[Kanchou]

[floatr][/floatr]http://dailynews.yahoo.co.jp/fc/domestic/seniors/?1221387801 (Japanese)

Japan's population of people over 75 is now over 10%.
Lord help us all.

[james]

i just wish to hell they'd stop driving. bloody menace they are.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Well, thankfully they're going to raise the consumption tax to make sure these past their prime wastes of space keep getting a pension!

[pheyton]

75 is the new 55 in Japan. It's a great time to get into elderly care, geriatric products. Instead of seeing millions or John McCains, see Yen! Lots and lots of Yen.

[ghostunit]

Well, they could just try making more babies.

It's fun. It's healthy. It's for the motherland (btw, do the Japanese use that term?).

[hundefar]

I am getting horny just thinking about all those old ladies. *drool*

[Kagetsu]

[xenomorph42]

I am getting horny just thinking about all those old ladies. *drool*

http://z.about.com/d/movies/1/0/l/4/O/considerationpic21.jpg


What a Milf!

Hey, at least you can ride bareback!;)

[Greji]

[quote="xenomorph42"]http://z.about.com/d/movies/1/0/l/4/O/considerationpic21.jpg


What a Milf!

Hey, at least you can ride bareback!]

Hey, careful! That's Take's dream you're talking about!

[Buraku]

Soylent Green time

[Kanchou]

It's Old People!!! Soylent Green is Old People!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mulboyne]

Mainichi: Number of elderly people living alone in Tokyo and surrounding areas expected to surge

The number of people aged 75 or over and living alone in Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa, is expected to rapidly increase, government projections have shown. According to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, the number of people across the nation aged 75 or over in 2025 will be more than three times higher than in 2000. However, that figure will be 5.61 times higher in Saitama Prefecture, 4.78 times higher in Chiba Prefecture, and 3.68 times higher in Kanagawa Prefecture. In Tokyo the figure will be 3.20 times higher by 2025. The large number of elderly and the speed at which the overall population is aging have posed major issues in Japan. If the elderly population grows rapidly, then healthcare and nursing costs will increase considerably; possibly to the point where the government may not be able to keep up. The figures incorporated 268 cities, wards, towns and villages as of December 2001, and were compiled in autumn last year.

The research found that in 2025 there would be 29 areas in and around Tokyo in which the number of people aged 75 or over living alone would be 5.00 to 5.99 times higher than in 2000. In another 22 areas the figure would be 6.00 to 6.99 times higher and in 16 areas the figure would be at least seven times higher. In the Chiba Prefecture city of Urayasu, the figure was projected to be 8.50 times higher. Hachiro Nishioka, a researcher working on the estimated figures, said one reason for the surge in the elderly population in the metropolitan area was the presence of the baby-boomers (the generation born between 1947 and 1949), many of who moved from regional areas to the metropolitan district. There are also a significant number of people who have been left living by themselves after their children have become independent and their spouse has died. "The way for us to protect people 75 or over and prevent people from dying alone are set to become import government policy issues," Nishioka said. "Each local body should be looking ahead to 2025 and be carefully forming medical care and welfare programs."