Daleys,
https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/jap ... population
"Japan’s population of 127 million is forecast to shrink by about one-third in the next five decades. The proportion of over-64-year-olds — currently about a quarter — is expected to reach 38 percent in that time frame, intensifying the financial and care burden on the working-age population. In a country where over-50s are commonplace on building sites, 86 percent of employers struggled to fill vacancies last year. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who aims to keep the population above 100 million, has introduced policies to curb excessive working hours and provide more care facilities for children and the aged. But progress has been slow, and moms and pensioners alone cannot plug the labor shortfall. Other remedies include Abe’s “robot revolution,” a plan to quadruple the size of the robotics industry by encouraging automation in everything from rubber factories to care for the elderly. The prime minister, sensitive to the public’s reluctance to open the doors to foreigners, has relaxed restrictions in a piecemeal fashion while avoiding the term “immigration.” His measures since taking office in 2012 have contributed to an increase in the number of overseas workers to more than a million, double that in 2008. A so-called internship program attracted cheap labor from Asia to farms and factories, and foreigners can now become housekeepers or tourist guides in special deregulated zones."
https://ifamericaknew.org/stat/usaid.html
"The U.S. provides Israel $10.5 million* in military aid each day,"
“Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing the amounts provided to any other state. It has been the largest annual recipient of direct U.S. economic and military assistance since 1976 and the largest total recipient since World War ll. Total direct U.S. aid to Israel amounts to well over $140 billion in 2003 dollars. Israel receives over $3 billion in direct foreign assistance each year, which is roughly one-fifth of America's entire foreign aid budget. In per capita terms, the United States gives each Israeli a direct subsidy worth about $500 per year. This largesse is especially striking when one realizes that Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to South Korea or Spain.”
- John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
