Japan’s Population Implosion

Yoichi Funabashi Ph.D. is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Asia Pacific Initiative and former Editor-in-Chief for the Asahi Shimbun. He is an award-winning Japanese journalist, columnist and author. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, the US-Japan Alliance, economics and historical issues in the Asia Pacific. He has a distinguished career as a journalist, notably winning the Shorenstein Journalism Award as the first Japanese recipient, the Japan Press Award known as Japan’s “Pulitzer Prize” for his columns on international affairs, and many other prizes.

• Introduction.- The Greater Tokyo Shock.- A Collapse in Regional Infrastructure.- The Impact of Demographic Changes on Macroeconomic and Public Finance.- Demographic Policy.- National Land (Regional/Administrative) Policy.- The Demographic Issue and Silver Democracy.- Population Growth Policy and Public Finance.- Optimum Population/Land Relocation - Area Management – Crisis Management.- Countering Falling Regional Population with Business.- Policy Proposals.