Demographics Matters

[QUOTE:] OGAMA, Japan — This mountain village near the Sea of Japan, withered to eight aging residents, concluded recently that it could no longer go on.

So, after months of anguish, the villagers settled on a drastic solution: selling all of Ogama to an industrial waste company from Tokyo, which will turn it into a landfill. [END QUOTE]

Village Writes Its Epitaph: Victim of a Graying Japan - New York Times.