THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 25, 2020 at 18:30 JST
Second-generation baby boomers line up at a junior high school in Tokyo’s Itabashi Ward in 1988. The first-year students are the group seen at left, with second-year students in the center and third-year students on the right. Those baby boomers were said to be independent minded and determined to carve out their own futures. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Second-generation "baby boomers," those born between 1971 and 1974, tend to feel they were dealt a bad hand in life and find themselves at more of a disadvantage as they grow older, an online survey commissioned by The Asahi Shimbun shows. [Read More]
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