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BOOK REVIEW: Robots Won’t Save Japan (An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation)

By James Wright. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. Hard cover, 182 pp with notes and Index

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For at least three decades, Japan has been aware that it is in a demographic crisis. In 1949 Japanese couples were having 2.9 million babies annually. By 1970, that figure had fallen to 1.2 million, and today Japan is only producing 800,000 babies a year. The country’s population is projected to fall from 120.76 million in 2030 to 105.80 million in 2050…

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