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Research shows one in 10 people in Japan now over 80
Japan has long been engaged in a struggle to provide for its ageing population. It has one of the lowest birth-rates in the world.
Just how acute the problem is has now been shown been new figures - which, for the first time, show that more than one in ten people in Japan are now aged eighty or over.
Dr Paul Morland is a demographer and author of the forthcoming book - "Procreate or Perish". He's been speaking to Newshour's Tim Franks.
(photo: an elderly man in Tokyo; credit - EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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