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How to Boost Japan's Shrinking Workforce? Redefine Old Age

Some say "old age" doesn’t really start until you’re 75

A woman exercises with wooden dumbbells at a temple in Tokyo.

Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
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When do you become a senior citizen?

That’s an increasingly important question in Japan, the world’s oldest nation, where the challenge is to keep people healthy and productive as they live longer.