Japan's demographic winter is further accelerated by the pandemic

Christian Kessler has notably published “The Japanese Kamikazes in the Pacific War.

1944-1945 ”(Economica, 2018) and“ The Japanese Kamikazes.

1944-1945.

Writings and words ”(Free to write, 2018).

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We know the legend of the old practice of

ubasute

(

uba

meaning old women and

sute to

throw), a custom of Chinese origin, so well described by Fukazawa Shichirô in his famous short story

The Ballad of Narayama

published in 1956 and brought to the

attention of Fukazawa Shichirô.

The screen in 1958. The

ubasute

consisted of carrying on your back the old women, mouths which had become useless in the event of famine, but it could also be the men, and to abandon them in the mountains.

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However, these days, this legend haunts the spirits like never in Japan.

The young Japanese who tomorrow will assume the weight of economic activity will find themselves facing a problem of a magnitude unknown to date in the Archipelago: later, but faster and undoubtedly more irreparably than Europe and the States United, Japan is aging.

And

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