Japan’s elderly turning to crime to ease cost of living.

[Chance and Change]

The generation who is elderly now, are the same ones who in the 1970's and 80's spent all the money their parents saved, as they wanted to live the sporting life of name tag luxury, name brand marquee cars, and take globe trotting hops at the most expensive resorts and hotels around the world. They leveraged everything to do so, after they'd spent the inheritance. They did not go on vacation for a couple of weeks, they did the 30 day plus vacations.

They destroyed the "jobs for life" program as corporate greed too off like a rocket, and their greed sent them into a situation which exploded with homelessness and suicides, young school girls working side jobs as "comfort girls" so they could buy the marquee handbags and shoes and they too got older, over the decades. Some were not able to catch a wealthy man, because men with money have no issue with trading in an aged one for a younger model.

For the past 20 yrs the women have not wanted to have babies, because they liked the styles and strut life of designer goods, status apartments and fine dining and outings.

Now, they have an aged society with a diminished volume of young people. They pushed the delusion of being the top of the Asian human pool of people and now, that secularism and excursionist mentality has become its own trap.
They have a robust tech sector, but not everyone is tech savvy, so there is a gap between the citizenship as to status, their class groupings, and their image and posturing groups. So, they are unraveling by the same vain things that once dominated their landscape when American sent all its production to Japan.

The Japanese refused to pay their people, instead they pushed for outsourcing, seeking cheap labor, and did the exact thing that American did, and that's devastate their citizen population, to become consumers of imported cheap goods.
They tried again to do what American once did, and that is stomp around the world buying up marquee properties, and lost them back to the same entities they bought them from.

Their challenges are compounded by the small land mass, so its not unlikely if they are allowed to militarize again, they will pursue the same agenda they pursued in World War II, and that is trying to seize resource capitals across the Pacific. People seem to forget their ruthlessness and the atrocities they engaged to promote and create in the quest for resource capitals in pursuit of dominance.
They've pursued and in some ways secured the rights to rebuild some of their military, and they think no one is watching, but the world has not forgotten, and certainly not the Pacific Nations.

Hawaii, became a mess in the 1980's when Japanese flooded the Islands and ran the home prices up so high, that Hawaiians of that generation were unable to buy homes. It changed the whole economic culture of Hawaii, until the Hawaiian people became mostly Tourist Workers in their own land, but they did not own the attractions.

Today, there are challenges, but they have been very good at advancing the usage of technology, but it simply may not be enough to fix the multitude of challenges.

They promoted novelty to their young, and a whole generation became lost in the novelty centers as such things dominated their focus as they thought the whole matter was "play time", until they awakened and found they had aged and the cost of things had outpaced their life style desires.

Who knows what their future will be- We should hope it remains "Peaceful".