Will Fee is a researcher at the Tokyo-based Yuri Group. He is the lead writer of the GxxD series of reports, which explore the intersection between digitalization and green energy in Japan.
Japan again set a milestone last month for the proportion of elderly people in society. Some 29.3% of the population are now over 65 years old -- the age when people become eligible for a pension. With the fertility rate also in the doldrums and the ranks of working age taxpayers growing thin, that figure spells trouble for Japan's economic future. It also sets alarm bells ringing for observers of the government's ongoing digitalization drive.
