How Japan is fighting population decline

Tokyo Toshiaki Okazaki, 72, could play golf with his friends this Monday. Instead, the lanky Japanese man stands in front of a wall full of air conditioning units in a Tokyo department store – wearing suit pants, a vest and a button for his radio in his ear. “I’ve been selling electronic devices here for ten years,” says Okazaki.

The seller says he loves his job. He worked in sales for an electronics company for 40 years until he reached internal retirement age there. But at 65, he doesn’t feel ready for retirement. He struck gold with the electronics chain Nojima. “I just wanted to try it,” he says. The planned five years finally turned into a second career.