Japan’s Population Crash Course: How the World’s Oldest Nation Is Beta-Testing Humanity’s Gray Future
Tokyo, 2024 – In the Land of the Rising Sun, the sun is politely asked to clock in a few extra hours because the national pension calculator is wheezing like a 40-year-old fax machine. Japan, once the planet’s poster child for bullet-train modernity, now finds itself the global canary in the demographic coal mine: a…