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Pension system in Japan

There are 127 inhabitants in Japan, and 35 million of them are retired. In 30 years it is expected that 50% of the Japanese will be retired. Immigration and natality rate are really low in Japan. Everyone between 20 and 59 years old has to pay to the pension system by law. But the big problem is that most of the young people don’t trust the system anymore and they just decided not to pay and just “save” money by their own.

Pensiones
I found this ad in Okinawa, it states that the pension system is the basis to “connection generations”.

The pension system and social security in general in Japan is REALLY rotten, politicians, newspapers, professors are thinking and thinking on how to solve it. Some of the most common proposals are:

  • Reduce the number of years from where you would receive the minimum pension from 25 years to 15 years. In countries like Germany with 10 years is enough.
  • Increase consumption taxes, here in Japan are ridiculously low (5%).
  • Increase immigration and natality. To solve this there are many proposals and stuff already going on but I can’t see any REAL change.

Which solutions would you propose for a country where the population doesn’t increase? This is something that in Japan is ALREADY happening and is going to start happening in other rich countries in the next decades.

Details about the Japanese pension system.

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Funny

What happens if you put a phone in a microwave oven

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JapaneseTV

How to fart without stinking too much

I like this TV show where viewers can ask weird questions and the show will answer the questions after some research. I recorded a piece of the show where someone asked “What do I have to do if I want to minimize the stinkness of my farts?”. In the TV show they are pretty serious with all questions, and they even called university professors to help them to find the solution to this difficult question. If you don’t know Japanese just watch from minute 5, and if you just want to see the final answer to to minute 7.

Do you have any technique better than the one showed in the video?

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