Japan is Dying

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Japan is dying alone. They are going through their worst crisis in the history. Let me explain. This is Tokiwadaira, a public housing estate near Tokyo built in 1960s. It used to be full of young people, kids playing around, and neighbors knowing each other. The same apartment block slowly got filled with elderly residents living alone. And then came the worst. In the [music] year 2000, residents discovered something horrifying. A man had died alone in his apartment and nobody noticed because his rent and bills were getting paid automatically. So, nothing looked wrong from the outside. No family came to check on him and no neighbor noticed that he was gone. And his death was discovered after 3 years when his savings account ran out of money. And this is just one case. There are thousands of similar cases going on in Japan. Look at this. In 2025, around 77,000 people died alone in their home, out of which around 59,000 individuals were aged 65 or older, 17,800 were working age, and 57 cases were teenagers or younger. And people in Japan are so used to being alone that there are entire industry focused on loneliness.

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