This book should serve to guide future discussion about the relationship between population aging and its economic effects in Japan. Miki Arimori, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance . . . a thorough and insightful analysis of the challenges posed by population ageing. Important to those interested in the future of Japan and the other industrialized countries of the world. Andrew Mason, East-West Center and University of Hawaii, US This insightful book sets an economic policy agenda th