its plans actually working well these things happen slowly so one thing that the prime minister shinzo abi is trying to do is to encourage. for people to work pasta such as for a retirement age of sixty five that's a pretty hard sell you know people are foregoing their pensions and they're staying in the labor market longer of course that's not something that's very attractive if you're an elderly person who's worked their whole life another thing he's trying to do is to encourage more women to enter the workforce because japan is very patriarchal society and those women who do choose to have families often find that their male partners aren't helping out enough with childcare so they end up leaving the workforce not the hugest country another thing that he's trying to do is to slowly increase immigration so he's just introducing that displacement is actually going to go into effect next month which will allow foreign workers to come to dupont for five years to fill some of those gaps in the labor market and they could go back. africa has the potential to teach japan a thing or two with my