When a nappy manufacturer has to switch from making baby nappies to making nappies for elderly people, because there are so few new children being born that there is a collapse in demand for the former product, you know something is seriously wrong with a society. But that is exactly what we’re seeing in Japan.
As reported by RTÉ this week, “Plunging birth rate pushes Japanese nappy maker to switch to adult market only”:
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