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Phrases such as “demographic change”, “fertility decline” and “aging society” are commonplace terminology in most industrialized countries. Western Europe, especially, is facing a mounting challenge: How to solve unknown problems of an aging and shrinking society? In fact, Japan is facing this problem as well and much earlier than Western Europe, but the time-lag is not long enough to observe the tide of events in Japan and to adopt Japan’s best practices.

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Weber, L. (2010). Introduction. In: Demographic Change and Economic Growth. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2590-9_1

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