Japan is a fortunate country. What better measure is there to support this assertion than declining mortality and growing life expectancy?! The Japanese do not die during the first precarious months after birth, enjoying as they do the lowest infant mortality on earth. They do not die on the...

Population implosion : coping with the unknown / Florian Coulmas and Ralph Lutzeler -- Confronting the demographic trilemma of low fertility, ageing, and depopulation / Shigemi Kono -- Europe's demographic future / Reiner Klingholz -- Flexible employment, flexible families, and the socialization...