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Japan's Aging Population: Perspectives of “Catastrophic Demography”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2008

John Creighton Campbell
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Review Essay—Japan
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008

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