If Japan's Workforce Is Struggling to Support a Growing Elderly Population, Why Are They Working Fewer Hours?

If folks can take a break from worrying about how robots are going to take all the jobs, they may want to look at a NYT piece on Japan's excess supply of housing. The basic story is that because of Japan's declining population there are now hundreds of thousands of homes across the country that are sitting empty because no one wants them.

While this is an interesting and important story, the piece also includes the standard nonsense about the demographics of an aging population devastating Ja...