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This book examines the way in which robotics and the re-deployment of the aged labor pool in Japan could increase economic productivity in order to cope with the demographic challenges facing that country. It provides options for advocates and policy-makers to select arguments most relevant to their interests for deployment in public intellectual discourse and debate.

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Narratives are produced to persuade others of the strength of a certain idea to initiate inquiry and dialogue on important issues. In examining these narratives and arguments about the relationship between Japan's changing demographics and its aging population, the idea is to highlight how they relate to each other. In this overview or historiography, three major narratives are examined and discussed. First, there is comparatively less focus on the environmental narratives related to the same issue of declining population and so the chapter picks up on this aspect for discussion. The second argument is related to the idea of adaptation rather than a benefit-detriment analysis. Even if the logic of economic decline is accepted, adaptation to a new reality of a smaller population may not automatically translate to unmitigated diminished economic opportunities for all businesses equally. The above two arguments indicate a commonality. Narratives related to population decline and aging population are contextual and situational. It depends on the priorities and interests of various advocates representing the different interest groups in Japan making arguments for meeting the challenges of demographic changes. Narratives represent options for advocates and policy-makers to select the arguments most relevant to their interests for deployment in public intellectual discourses and debates to convince others of their persuasiveness.

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