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Japan's population is expected to collapse over the next few deacades, and that population will be increasingly past retirement age. http://www.economist.com/b

Japan's population is expected to collapse over the next few deacades, and that population will be increasingly past retirement age. http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demography http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/03/japans-demogra... So you're gonna need to give serious thought to where you're planning to get employees from.

sparkzilla 10y ago
Or you could start a robotics or elder-care business...
- rpeden 10y ago
  You'd probably want to combine them and run an elder-care business staffed by robots to get around the labor supply problem.
  - rev 10y ago
    Or still yet, a robot-care business staffed by ever more populous and longer living Japanese. Because Japan!
    - rpeden 10y ago
      Or just cut out the care part and start robotically enhancing Japanese seniors.
      - gcatalfamo 10y ago
        Or making robots act as Japanese seniors. The sky is the limit.
    - bpodgursky 10y ago
      There's some evidence that much of the reason the Japanese are so "long lived" is just pension fraud by surviving relatives: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html
      - contingencies 10y ago
        Hahahaha. Awesome. I'd never heard of that, but based upon observations of the same elsewhere I'd lend it credence. I certainly didn't see loads of super old people in Japan on my (month long) trip, even in places they might traditionally be found (high ranking Buddhist monasteries) but perhaps that was just the places I was hanging out (rural north of Kansai, Kansai).
mjolk 10y ago
> So you're gonna need to give serious thought to where you're planning to get employees from. As well as the tax burden for supporting the aging portion of the population (similar to considerations of basing a company in Florida, Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania, or other high-percentage elderly population US state).
- Arizhel 10y ago
  That won't happen in Florida. Florida is very right-wing and low-tax. Any older people unable to support themselves there will be left out in the cold (by the state government at least).
andy_ppp 10y ago
Maybe Japan will become more open to people from other countries living in Japan; I'm probably moving there soon and if you have contracts with Japanese businesses you can self sponsor a visa. Seems fairly progressive to me.
xyzzy4 10y ago
That's the price of freedom. Banning birth control and abortions would probably keep the population growing or at least stagnant.

sparkzilla 10y ago

Or you could start a robotics or elder-care business...

rpeden 10y ago
You'd probably want to combine them and run an elder-care business staffed by robots to get around the labor supply problem.
- rev 10y ago
  Or still yet, a robot-care business staffed by ever more populous and longer living Japanese. Because Japan!
  - rpeden 10y ago
    Or just cut out the care part and start robotically enhancing Japanese seniors.
    - gcatalfamo 10y ago
      Or making robots act as Japanese seniors. The sky is the limit.
  - bpodgursky 10y ago
    There's some evidence that much of the reason the Japanese are so "long lived" is just pension fraud by surviving relatives: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html
    - contingencies 10y ago
      Hahahaha. Awesome. I'd never heard of that, but based upon observations of the same elsewhere I'd lend it credence. I certainly didn't see loads of super old people in Japan on my (month long) trip, even in places they might traditionally be found (high ranking Buddhist monasteries) but perhaps that was just the places I was hanging out (rural north of Kansai, Kansai).

mjolk 10y ago

> So you're gonna need to give serious thought to where you're planning to get employees from. As well as the tax burden for supporting the aging portion of the population (similar to considerations of basing a company in Florida, Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania, or other high-percentage elderly population US state).

Arizhel 10y ago
That won't happen in Florida. Florida is very right-wing and low-tax. Any older people unable to support themselves there will be left out in the cold (by the state government at least).

andy_ppp 10y ago

Maybe Japan will become more open to people from other countries living in Japan; I'm probably moving there soon and if you have contracts with Japanese businesses you can self sponsor a visa. Seems fairly progressive to me.

xyzzy4 10y ago

That's the price of freedom. Banning birth control and abortions would probably keep the population growing or at least stagnant.