According to demographers, Japan's population began to shrink last year, a trend that is expect to continue until 2050.
By that year, Japan's population may shrink from 127 million to 100 million due to low birthrates and a growing elderly population.
Despite decades of effort, Japan has been unable to reverse this trend using pro-natal policies designed to encourage Japanese citizens into having more babies. And with the world's highest longevity rates, Japan has to begin thinking of how it will take care of its massive and growing elderly population.
In 2004, Sony chairman Iwao Nakatani called for mass migration to ease the demographic crisis. However, conservative Japanese continue to resist such changes.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Friday, June 30, 2006
Philippines' Maoists may form alliance with opposition
Philippine communist party leaders held talks with a senior opposition senator, Netherlands-based Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison said Friday.
Opposition Senator Maria Ana Consuelo Madrigal confirmed later that day that she had met with leaders of the CPP in the Netherlands.
The opposition and the CPP are looking to form a political alliance to bring down the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Netherlands-based Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison, in a 1997 file photo. AFP/ANP photo via Yahoo News.
On Monday, opposition groups filed a new impeachment reqest against the president on grounds that she cheated in the last election and has committed numerous abuses. A similar move last year fell far from achieving the necessary votes.
If an alliance with the CPP is formed, it will be a first in the history of the communist party whose leadership fled the country after failed peace talks in the late 1980s.
Opposition Senator Maria Ana Consuelo Madrigal confirmed later that day that she had met with leaders of the CPP in the Netherlands.
The opposition and the CPP are looking to form a political alliance to bring down the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Netherlands-based Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison, in a 1997 file photo. AFP/ANP photo via Yahoo News.
On Monday, opposition groups filed a new impeachment reqest against the president on grounds that she cheated in the last election and has committed numerous abuses. A similar move last year fell far from achieving the necessary votes.
If an alliance with the CPP is formed, it will be a first in the history of the communist party whose leadership fled the country after failed peace talks in the late 1980s.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Expatriate Filipinos want voice in Charter change
The huge population of Filipino overseas workers is clamoring for a say in proposals for a new national constitution.
Leaders from the United States, Saudi Arabia and other regions are calling for Manila to listen to expatriate workers and digest their views, a report from the Philippine Inquirer said.
Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (R) seen here with Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano at Quirinale palace on Rome June 26, 2006. Seh is pushing for a new constitution and a parliamentary system of government. REUTERS/Handout/Enrico Oliverio-Italian Presidency Press Office via Yahoo News.
Overseas Filipinos contribute billions of dollars in remittances to the natinoal coffers each year, and the Philippines has long been the world's leading exporter of workers.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is pushing for a new constitution that would switch the country to a parliamentary form of government.
Leaders from the United States, Saudi Arabia and other regions are calling for Manila to listen to expatriate workers and digest their views, a report from the Philippine Inquirer said.
Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (R) seen here with Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano at Quirinale palace on Rome June 26, 2006. Seh is pushing for a new constitution and a parliamentary system of government. REUTERS/Handout/Enrico Oliverio-Italian Presidency Press Office via Yahoo News.
Overseas Filipinos contribute billions of dollars in remittances to the natinoal coffers each year, and the Philippines has long been the world's leading exporter of workers.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is pushing for a new constitution that would switch the country to a parliamentary form of government.
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