As birthrates decrease and people live longer, the natural forces of aging will beat against public finances, political processes and educational institutions like waves on the shore. Communities will change on the most fundamental level: even family practices and cultural values are likely to bow to demographic pressures. Nowhere will these forces appear sooner and with greater foreshadowing than in Japan.

I’m going to be frank—I don’t have any elaborate theories lined up, and I’m hesitant to offer any kind of bold predictions. Instead, I hope to offer a perspective or two from my own experiences.

On April 30, 1975, South Vietnam ceased to exist. In one day, my father, a South Vietnamese officer, found himself without a country to defend [...]

As the world’s economic condition continues to worsen, South Korea’s economy is not exempt. In 2007, as the sub-prime mortgage disaster began to surface, many experts believed that the financial crisis would be limited to the U.S. and countries heavily intertwined with it [...]