Demographic Aging in Japan and Beyond

Time: Sept. 22, 2018, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: 220 Eggers Hall

Sawako Shirahase (Tokyo University)
Mary Brinton (Harvard University)
Ito Peng (University of Toronto)

Demographic aging is one of the most serious policy challenges all advanced industrial societies face today. This event focuses on Japan — a country experiencing the most dramatic demographic aging — to explore how factors such as gender ideology, gender relations and tolerance for diversity deeply affect the demographic sustainability of our societies.

Additional supporters:

Japan Foundation
Moynihan Institute
College of Arts & Sciences

Brian Hurley, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics