ASIAN POP Robot Nation / Why Japan, and not America, is likely to be the world's first cyborg society
SFGate.com, Aug 25, 2005
...."There's already a labor shortage in nursing and care for the elderly. Most elderly Japanese would rather be attended to by a robot than [foreign] nurse" -- largely because the cultural norms in Japan are more complex and exacting than in other countries.....
All of these things make human-seeming androids a perfect fit for many service roles in Japan's etiquette-driven society....more....
