The incredibly long living and therefore growing number of old people in Japan certainly causes plenty of problems. There’s the the huge burden on the nation’s health service, an even bigger one on the dwindling number of wage earners, and last but by no means least, the godawful prospect of gateball becoming the country’s number one sport.
But there is the odd advantage, aside from the obvious benefit to those actually living longer, as, for anyone who wants to photograph them, all those years create incredibly character filled.
Fascinatingly featured.
Faces.
Badboy says
I bet she’s got some amazing stories up in that head 🙂
Lee says
Yeah, I bet. She has obviously changed a lot, but probably nothing compared to the changes Tokyo has seen in her lifetime.
Biggie says
National Sport: sumo out, gateball in?
Lee says
I used to watch sumo a lot, but the forced retirement of Asashoryu, and now the match rigging scandal, has turned me right off it. Although it hasn’t, I hasten to add, turned me straight on to gateball!
andra says
she makes me miss my grandma.
Lee says
Yeah, me too…
andrea says
i know this lady!
in true she ‘s only 55 years old.