Thinking About the 2025 Problem--Part 1:

Population Change and the 2025 Problem

Takao Komine

Senior Research Counselor

Professor, Hosei Graduate School of Regional Policy Design

The Institute for International Policy Studies has inaugurated the 2025 Problem Research Group; I serve as the group's chairman. In this series of articles, I would like to relate the group's findings as they become available. In this installment, I will provide a general argument about the relationship between population change and the 2025 Problem.

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