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Demonstration Against the Pension Reform - Paris

Demonstration against the pension reform organized by high school and student unions in front of the City Hall of Paris, France on May 11th, 2023. The Anti-capitalist Party, the youth wing of the Trotskyist party, united with high school and university unions, demonstrated against the pension reform, promulgated on April 14. Only some 250 young people – and their slightly more graying supporters – were present on the streets of Paris. Photo by Claire Série /BePress Photo Agency/Bppa/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration Against the Pension Reform - Paris

Demonstration against the pension reform organized by high school and student unions in front of the City Hall of Paris, France on May 11th, 2023. The Anti-capitalist Party, the youth wing of the Trotskyist party, united with high school and university unions, demonstrated against the pension reform, promulgated on April 14. Only some 250 young people – and their slightly more graying supporters – were present on the streets of Paris. Photo by Claire Série /BePress Photo Agency/Bppa/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration Against the Pension Reform - Paris

Demonstration against the pension reform organized by high school and student unions in front of the City Hall of Paris, France on May 11th, 2023. The Anti-capitalist Party, the youth wing of the Trotskyist party, united with high school and university unions, demonstrated against the pension reform, promulgated on April 14. Only some 250 young people – and their slightly more graying supporters – were present on the streets of Paris. Photo by Claire Série /BePress Photo Agency/Bppa/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration Against the Pension Reform - Paris

Demonstration against the pension reform organized by high school and student unions in front of the City Hall of Paris, France on May 11th, 2023. The Anti-capitalist Party, the youth wing of the Trotskyist party, united with high school and university unions, demonstrated against the pension reform, promulgated on April 14. Only some 250 young people – and their slightly more graying supporters – were present on the streets of Paris. Photo by Claire Série /BePress Photo Agency/Bppa/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration Against the Pension Reform - Paris

Demonstration against the pension reform organized by high school and student unions in front of the City Hall of Paris, France on May 11th, 2023. The Anti-capitalist Party, the youth wing of the Trotskyist party, united with high school and university unions, demonstrated against the pension reform, promulgated on April 14. Only some 250 young people – and their slightly more graying supporters – were present on the streets of Paris. Photo by Claire Série /BePress Photo Agency/Bppa/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration Against the Pension Reform - Paris

Demonstration against the pension reform organized by high school and student unions in front of the City Hall of Paris, France on May 11th, 2023. The Anti-capitalist Party, the youth wing of the Trotskyist party, united with high school and university unions, demonstrated against the pension reform, promulgated on April 14. Only some 250 young people – and their slightly more graying supporters – were present on the streets of Paris. Photo by Claire Série /BePress Photo Agency/Bppa/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration Against the Pension Reform - Paris

Demonstration against the pension reform organized by high school and student unions in front of the City Hall of Paris, France on May 11th, 2023. The Anti-capitalist Party, the youth wing of the Trotskyist party, united with high school and university unions, demonstrated against the pension reform, promulgated on April 14. Only some 250 young people – and their slightly more graying supporters – were present on the streets of Paris. Photo by Claire Série /BePress Photo Agency/Bppa/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration Against the Pension Reform - Paris

Demonstration against the pension reform organized by high school and student unions in front of the City Hall of Paris, France on May 11th, 2023. The Anti-capitalist Party, the youth wing of the Trotskyist party, united with high school and university unions, demonstrated against the pension reform, promulgated on April 14. Only some 250 young people – and their slightly more graying supporters – were present on the streets of Paris. Photo by Claire Série /BePress Photo Agency/Bppa/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration Against the Pension Reform - Paris

Demonstration against the pension reform organized by high school and student unions in front of the City Hall of Paris, France on May 11th, 2023. The Anti-capitalist Party, the youth wing of the Trotskyist party, united with high school and university unions, demonstrated against the pension reform, promulgated on April 14. Only some 250 young people – and their slightly more graying supporters – were present on the streets of Paris. Photo by Claire Série /BePress Photo Agency/Bppa/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration Against the Pension Reform - Paris

Demonstration against the pension reform organized by high school and student unions in front of the City Hall of Paris, France on May 11th, 2023. The Anti-capitalist Party, the youth wing of the Trotskyist party, united with high school and university unions, demonstrated against the pension reform, promulgated on April 14. Only some 250 young people – and their slightly more graying supporters – were present on the streets of Paris. Photo by Claire Série /BePress Photo Agency/Bppa/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Aeon opens shopping center targeting seniors

FUNABASHI, Japan - A couple (C) examine glasses at a store in a shopping center opened in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on April 25, 2012. Major Japanese supermarket chain operator Aeon Co. opened the shopping center, with a wide array of products and services aimed at senior customers, in a move reflective of an increasingly graying society with fewer children.

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Japan fetes new adults, ratio of 20-yr-olds hits record low 1%

URAYASU, Japan - Women who turned 20 pose for photos with Mickey Mouse at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on Jan. 8 to celebrate Coming-of-Age Day. The ratio of those who entered the new year at the age of 20 hit a record low of 1.09 percent amid the graying of Japan's population.

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Gov't, ruling bloc begin debate on reform to curb medical costs

TOKYO, Japan - Cabinet ministers and member of the ruling coalition parties meet at the prime minister's office on Nov. 10 to launch a debate on ways to curb growing fiscal spending on medical care benefits amid the graying of the society.

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Gov't, ruling bloc begin debate on reform to curb medical costs

TOKYO, Japan - Cabinet ministers and member of the ruling coalition parties meet at the prime minister's office on Nov. 10 to launch a debate on ways to curb growing fiscal spending on medical care benefits amid the graying of the society. (Kyodo)

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Gov't, ruling bloc begin debate on reform to curb medical costs

TOKYO, Japan - Cabinet ministers and member of the ruling coalition parties meet at the prime minister's office on Nov. 10 to launch a debate on ways to curb growing fiscal spending on medical care benefits amid the graying of the society. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China, S. Korea to enhance cooperation on infectious diseases

(From L) Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission Minister Li Bin, Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki and South Korean Health and Welfare Minister Chung Chin Youb attend a joint news conference in Kyoto on Nov. 29, 2015, after their trilateral talks. They issued a joint statement calling for enhanced trilateral cooperation over infectious diseases and coordination of policies related to the graying of their populations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cabinet minister Kato visits Yasukuni Shrine

Katsunobu Kato (R), minister in charge of dealing with Japan's declining birthrate and graying society, walks out after offering prayers at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2015. Kato was the third minister of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's reshuffled Cabinet to pay homage at the Shinto shrine. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traffic law revised to bar elderly drivers with dementia

Photo shows a plenary session of Japan's House of Representatives, which enacted a legal revision on June 11, 2015, to prevent elderly people with dementia from driving in an effort to reduce accidents in fast-graying Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Coffin-entering experience at "end-of-life planning" cafe in Tokyo

A woman experiences getting inside a colorful coffin made of forest thinning and corrugated paper at newly opened Blue Ocean Cafe offering "end-of-life planning" services in Tokyo on April 21, 2015. End-of-life planning is a household term in today's rapidly graying society. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Graying Japan pushes technological innovation for elderly

Tokyo, Japan - Photo taken on April 5, 2017 shows the Nagayama area, one of the oldest districts in Tama New Town, Japan's largest residential development, built amid the country's high economic growth in the early 1970s. Many of the area's first residents still live there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Graying Japan pushes technological innovation for elderly

A thumb-sized portable electronic device developed by Sohgo Security Services Co., popularly known as ALSOK, works to help find lost dementia sufferers quickly. The device provides information on the location of the person carrying it, Daiki Shimamura, an ALSOK official, said at its Tokyo headquarters on March 27, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Diet set to pass pension reform bill during current session

A lower house panel votes on a bill aimed at softening the impact of Japan's shrinking and graying population on the country's pension system on Nov. 25, 2016, amid fierce opposition from Democratic Party and Japanese Communist Party lawmakers. The panel passed the bill, paving the way for it to clear the Diet before the end of the current session. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan fetes new adults, ratio of 20-yr-olds hits record low 1%

URAYASU, Japan - Women who turned 20 pose for photos with Mickey Mouse at Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, on Jan. 8 to celebrate Coming-of-Age Day. The ratio of those who entered the new year at the age of 20 hit a record low of 1.09 percent amid the graying of Japan's population. (Kyodo)

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Aeon opens shopping center targeting seniors

FUNABASHI, Japan - A couple (C) examine glasses at a store in a shopping center opened in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on April 25, 2012. Major Japanese supermarket chain operator Aeon Co. opened the shopping center, with a wide array of products and services aimed at senior customers, in a move reflective of an increasingly graying society with fewer children. (Kyodo)

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In Hong Kong protests, "radicals" have a touch of gray

HONG KONG, Hong Kong - Visibly concerned, a group of older men stand by a barricade watching street protests in Hong Kong's busy Mong Kok neighborhood. While students have played a central role in the pro-democracy campaign, a small group of graying protesters has joined forces to call for greater democracy in Hong Kong. Photo taken on Oct. 30, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Japan sees investment, labor reform as key in economic policy

The Japanese government holds a meeting of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy in Tokyo on May 23, 2017. The government proposed stepping up investment in human resources development and promoting labor reform in its overview of an economic and fiscal policy blueprint, as the graying nation tries to boost its productivity and growth potential. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan sees investment, labor reform as key in economic policy

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) speaks at a meeting of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy in Tokyo on May 23, 2017. The government proposed stepping up investment in human resources development and promoting labor reform in its overview of an economic and fiscal policy blueprint, as the graying nation tries to boost its productivity and growth potential. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan lower house passes pension reform bill amid opposition protest

The House of Representatives passes a bill during a plenary session in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2016, aimed at keeping Japan's pension system sustainable in the face of a graying and shrinking population. Lawmakers of three opposition parties left the session in protest, abstaining from a vote on the bill. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lower house passes pension reform bill amid opposition protest

Lawmakers representing three opposition parties walk out in protest from the House of Representatives chamber in Tokyo on Nov. 29, 2016, abstaining from a vote on a bill aimed at keeping Japan's pension system sustainable in the face of the country's graying and shrinking population. The bill, which opposition parties call the "pension-cutting" bill, passed the lower house and will progress to the upper house. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Diet set to pass pension reform bill during current session

A lower house panel votes on a bill aimed at softening the impact of Japan's shrinking and graying population on the country's pension system on Nov. 25, 2016, amid fierce opposition from Democratic Party and Japanese Communist Party lawmakers. The panel passed the bill, paving the way for it to clear the Diet before the end of the current session. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to open doors for foreign trainees to assume care jobs

The House of Representatives judicial affairs committee approves bills in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2016, to enable foreign trainees to take nursing care jobs in Japan, paving the way for their enactment in the current Diet session as the rapidly graying country will face a serious shortage of personnel in the industry in coming years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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G-7 health chiefs vow to boost measures on dementia care

Japanese health minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki (C) speaks at a press conference in Kobe on Sept. 12, 2016, after health ministers from the Group of Seven leading economies wrapped up their two-day meeting. The G-7 agreed to boost measures on dementia care amid the rapid graying of societies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo