Robots

We have all heard about Japan’s aging population and there are often articles about the shrinking labour force in the papers. In an article in today’s “Daily Yomiuri” the dean of Tokyo university’s graduate school is quoted as saying “in the type of aging society that we foresee, the situation will likely get to the point where there will be little choice but to get some help from robots”. Exciting stuff, but it makes us laugh that immigration is not even considered an option. The Japanese would rather have a robot looking after them in their old age than a foreign nurse for instance. We are wondering when they are going to invent English teaching robots and send us all home.