Your editorial “Japan’s Immigration Harbinger” (Dec. 6) correctly underscores the profound and potentially huge shift in Japan’s immigration policy to address “an aging society and [the related] labor shortage.” Yet, your “no good alternatives to foreign workers . [noting that] . efforts to bring more women into the workforce have yielded modest success . [and that] artificial intelligence is a possibility,” but “robots can’t do everything,” completely miss the most obvious answer of people working longer than 20th-century retirement norms. At the November Global Coalition on Aging-Health and Global Policy...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 09, 2018 18:33 UTC