News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:A Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death by gourou on Friday December 01, 2017 @10:15AM (#15824228)
Japan's elderly population (25%) is much higher than any other OCDE country (14.5% for the US). Investment in robot assistants for the elderly hasn't been particularly fruitful, therefore Japan is slowly turning to immigration to take care of them.

https://data.oecd.org/pop/elderly-population.htm#indicator-c...

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/01/japan-prefers-robot-bear...

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/its-population-ages-...

Re:A Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death by Parcissons on Friday December 01, 2017 @11:19AM (#15824777)
My aunt worked in geronto-theraphy - and always told us about the russian and polish care-takers working at the nursing homes caring for elderly SS-Soldiers in 90s and 20s. What a job, feeding the guy who might have murdered your grandparents. I hope having immigrants come to help, japan is able to cast off its racism.