published Jul 9th 2017, 3:00 pm, by James Mayger (Bloomberg) —While the latest data shows that the number of Japanese shrank by a record in 2016, the demographic picture isn’t quite so bleak when you include the growing ranks of foreigners. There are now 2.3 million foreigners resident in Japan.

published Aug 1st 2017, 4:45 am, by Ben Steverman (Bloomberg) —Millions of American workers are frozen out of their companies’ pension plans. Maybe you get a 401(k), if you’re lucky. But the traditional pension is dead. Unless, perhaps, you’re already retired. It still lives for millions of older Americans who worked and qualified for