ABSTRACT
This chapter is primarily speculative, bringing together a rather disparate group of themes we have been engaged with over the past few years: the results of globalization, the strategies of peripheral regions and communities in the face of demographic decline, processes of tourism and migration, and attempts to keep local cultures going. How these different threads may relate to each other is shown later, but to start with the discussion looks at a series of remarkable population pyramids recently published by the Japanese Government (Figure 25.1; Buckley, 2004), the purpose being to demonstrate that Japan will need large supplies of immigrant labor for the foreseeable future if the economic effects of the korei shakai or aging society is to be warded off. The changing profile of the Japanese population, 1950–2050 https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203123287/ec411e23-a7dd-43c3-b71e-8770110ea4a1/content/fig25_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
