Tightening Workforce Could Compel Healthy Japanese to Toil to 80
- World’s oldest country not making full use of older workers
- Many Japanese companies still set mandatory retirement at 60
Sonoe Kudo, 65 year old caregiver, leads a resident riding on a wheelchair to her room at a nursing home operated by CARE TWENTY-ONE Corp. in Kasai, Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, June 30, 2016. Bloomberg/Yuya Shino
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Hiroshi Suzuki had a fulfilling career in which he traveled the world as an engineer. Then, at age 65, he retired. That didn’t last long. For the past seven years Suzuki, 72, has been a nursing aide in the Tokyo area, and says he’s years away from true retirement.
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