In 2014, journalists from Japan’s NHK documented the phenomenon of A Society Without Bonds, portraying how the elderly in an atomized society—devoid of social, familial, or community ties—gradually become isolated and ultimately pass away alone.
A decade later, the Japanese drama Two in the Neighborhood (Douban rating 9.3) offers a starkly different narrative. Its two 55-year-old female protagonists no longer treat aging with tragic solemnity; instead, they put on face masks, lift weights casually, and remark with ease: "Humans simply can’t give up hope."
Japan, China’s neighboring country, provides a vivid window into how attitudes toward aging have shifted from fear to composure amid profound, gradual demographic changes.
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