Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations

Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations by nihonde on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @08:18AM (#11579685)

This whole line of argument makes no sense. Why wouldn't every country overreport old people or underreport deaths, as the case may be? Just about every country has an incentive for pension fraud.

So...why Japan?

Incidentally, old people are in visibly high numbers here in Japan. I joke sometimes that it's like living in a zombie movie——it's not uncommon to be completely surrounded by only elderly people shuffling to and fro.

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Re:Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations by Chris2048 on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @09:56AM (#11580437)

What line of argument? It feels like you're referring to an argument I haven't made - The one where I say stats must have their potential for error considered, but only wrt Japan.

Also, some of the links posted here show particular reasons to consider these Japanese stats suspect:

> Just about every country has an incentive for pension fraud.

Not all countries investigate pension fraud equally.

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