Panel urges gov't to prompt elderly's emigration to local areas

Panel urges gov't to prompt elderly's emigration to local areas

Hiroya Masuda, chairman of the private-sector Japan Policy Council, explains at a meeting in Tokyo on June 4, 2015, the details of its recommendation that the government promote the emigration of elderly people in the Tokyo metropolitan region to provincial areas to offset the dwindling regional population. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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    Soichiro Suzuki (R), a 72-year-old resident of a community house in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, talks with fellow occupants running a store in the facility on June 3, 2015. Suzuki, who moved to the central Japan city in April from Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, says he is satisfied with his new life. The Japan Policy Council, a private-sector research body, has suggested that the government promote elderly people's emigration to provincial areas from the Tokyo region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo