As populations decline and age across many developed countries, cities are increasingly being forced to ask a difficult question: How can residents maintain well-being when long-term demographic recovery is unlikely? This question is especially urgent in Japan, where the majority of small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) are already experiencing population decline.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As populations decline and age across many developed countries, cities are increasingly being forced to ask a difficult question: How can residents maintain well-being when long-term demographic recovery is unlikely? This question is especially urgent in Japan, where the majority of small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) are already experiencing population decline.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1700],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genel-yabanci"],"yoast_head":"\n