Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso on Monday retracted his remark the previous day that could be taken as blaming swelling social security costs and other issues associated with Japan's aging population and declining birthrates on those who do not have children."There are lots of strange people who say the elderly are to blame, but that is wrong. The problem is those who don't have children," Aso, who doubles as finance minister, said in a seminar held in his constituency in the southwestern prefecture of Fukuoka.When grilled by an opposition lawmaker during a lower house committee session Mond…READ FULL ARTICLE
