Faced with an exponentially growing world population, what is required is a population stabilization policy to control the global fertility rates. This has implications for the working-age population in the future, and lead to a serious economic crisis. It is envisaged that by the year 2050 the...

This paper examines the process of the globalization of Malaysia, a country that has developed over four decades to become one of the top three globalized nations of Asia, after Singapore and Israel. Initially, its enormous primary resources supplied it with a comparative advantage. It pursued...

The deeply rooted changes in the structure of the Japanese population raise a number of critical questions that companies need to address. Demographic change is already influencing human resource management, marketing and sales in many companies today. This trend is likely to continue.Although...

...Die seit 2000 bestehende Pflegeversicherung, die nicht zuletzt mit demZiel eingeführt wurde, Familien von der Altenpflege zu entlasten, hat ihrenAnspruch nur zum Teil eingelöst. Zwar leisten mobile Pflegedienste undTagespflege wichtige Arbeit und tragen somit in der Tat zur...

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...

Das Thema „Regionale Disparitäten“ hat derzeit Konjunktur in Japan. Deröffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunksender NHK begann im April 2007 mit einerlockeren Reihe von Fernsehdokumentationen unter dem ObertitelChiiki hatsu! Dō suru Nippon [Aus den Regionen! Japan, was tun?]. Gesendetetwa jeden...

Since the early 1950s, the Japanese government has followed a paradigmof ‘balanced regional development’ that is based on comprehensive planning approachescharacterized by very high levels of central government control. However,the intended regional economic growth failed to occur and...