The above pictures are magazine panels from an article intended to teach Japanese children about a looming societal crisis that they will be having to face termed the 少子高齢化 (shoushikoureika). Reading it Chinese character by character, one can interpret it to mean “a change in which there’s few children but many elderly”. In other words, it refers to the Japan’s current predicament in which fewer and fewer children are being born, while simultaneously the elderly are living longer. Aside from these magazine panels, there was of course actual columns of text so this article did not read just like a comic book. As far as using this as study material for understanding both the Japanese language and one aspect of Japanese society, I found that this was quite informative. Of course, once reaching a certain level in Japanese it would be necessary to read scholarly articles and well researched books on the subject to get a much more in depth examination of this societal problem.
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