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Social problems occurring related to ageing of the population in developed countries and policies pursued for these problems will lead to the determination of social policies, which will be followed in close future by developing countries such as Turkey. In this study, social problems occurring related to demographic change in Japan, which is among the fastest ageing countries in the world, and the solution plans, and policies pursued for these problems are questioned. Social conditions, emerged due to both anxiety of future caused by an impairing social security system with the ageing population and declining birth rates and conflict between traditional and social life caused by the strict working program in Japan, bear a resemblance to the socio-economic structure of Turkey. Ageing of population, constant decline in birth rates, and changing socio-psychologic behaviours of people result in major structural changes in family and society structures. Japan with its ageing population, thus, tightly holds its social policies in order to preserve its current power or even “generation” instead of competing to be the world’s giant. These social policy implementations contain specific socio-cultural features stemming from Japan’s history as well as western solutions, and also include various modern social problems and solutions.

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