Japan is meeting the era of Reiwa with unprecedented growth in the elder age brackets and declining numbers among the young.

One definition of progress is that Japan should move its society from one based on traditional values - highly protective of change and respectful of continuity and stability -

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 goals and 169 targets that countries are encouraged to use as a guide for sustainable development.

In Japanese culture, it is said that each person has an ikigai (生き甲斐, pronounced ee-kee-guy), or “path to life fulfilment” or “purpose for being.”

By now, some readers will have heard of the Japanese concept of ‘ikigai’ that is becoming popularized by bloggers and life-advisors in western countries. Like so many words in