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Japan nappy maker shifts from babies to adults
- speckx 3y agoTIL: Japan now has one of the world's oldest populations, with almost 30% of them aged 65 or older. Last year, the proportion of those aged above 80 surpassed 10% for the first time.
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoRelated: Plunging births push Japanese diaper maker to switch to adult market https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/03/26/companies/japan-adult-diaper-market-switch/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/03/26/companies/j...
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoBut also, this is reported often in various forms as far back as July 2013: In Rapidly Aging Japan, Adult Diaper Sales Are About to Surpass Baby Diapers https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/07/in-rapidly-aging-japan-adult-diaper-sales-are-about-to-surpass-baby-diapers/277706/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/07/in-rapi...
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoAnd not isolated to Japan.. Nov 2021 Adult diaper sales in China could exceed infant diaper sales by 2025, research suggests https://www.businessinsider.com/adult-diaper-sales-china-exceed-infant-diapers-by-2025-report-2021-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/adult-diaper-sales-china-exc...
- traceroute66 3y agoThe rest of the ageing world would do well to learn some lessons from Japan. For example, providing ready access to clean public toilets ? Tick. But also in terms of transport being prepared for the elderly. The Shinkanzen famously only makes brief stops at intermediate stations, sometimes as short as 60 seconds. And yet on multiple occasions now, I've witnessed elderly people in wheelchairs being efficiently onloaded/offloaded from the train well within that 60 second limit. I'm sure, like all countries, Japan is not perfect. But right now, I think I'm fairly safe in saying they are ahead of the game in elderly care.
- dvh 3y agoYou cannot make any deductions from Japan. It is it's own thing. The things that works there may not work elsewhere.
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoWe should find out what it is about Japan that makes certain things work there.
- supertofu 3y agoAn incredibly homogenous society, for one.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoBut the homogeneity of race is a social construct. Sure, there's cultural differences, but there's no hard biological obstacle to a high-trust multicultural society, just ingrained ideological opposition. If we can consciously shuck this counterproductive flailing against integration, maybe we can actually get somewhere.
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoEither you have a multicultural society or you have a high trust society, you can't have both. Why? Because people have an instinctual distrust of people dissimilar to them.
- princeb 3y agoJapan is not a high trust society. Japanese people are highly suspicious of other people, including Japanese. Japanese people are extremely concerned about how they are viewed and judged by others; the conformity is a desire to be accepted in society, and such trust and acceptance is not freely given but instead quickly taken away. Among my friends from Japan who have left the country, this is by far the most oppressive social more that they feel compelled to follow. And among those who have moved to Japan, many feel that learning the social rules and earning that trust was a significant accomplishment, and a handful want to preserve that exclusion because of how much effort it took to make themselves part of society. Japanese social groups are extremely exclusive- on the broadest level, foreigners are excluded from some establishments, banking and housing services are sometimes inaccessible to foreigners. And on a smaller level, there are also establishments that do not accept new customers without an introduction, local or not. Such exclusions are an integral part of the culture - the language itself is a shibboleth, you know your place and standing in the world by the language other people use when they speak to you.
- tibbydudeza 3y agoNearing that phase of my life (55y) where I have to think about my old age. My genes seems good as my parents are still healthy and living in their own home at the age of 83. It is expensive to get old - how do Japanese do it ???. Retirement homes or folks just living with their children like in some cultures ??.
- bamboozled 3y agoPersonal responsibility is a big thing and a important duty in Japan, this includes staying active and healthy.
- incomingpain 3y agoIf I were a diaper manufacturer, I wouldn't limit myself and I would make them for all sizes.
- trueismywork 3y agoThat's why you're not a diaper manufacturer