Who will look after Japan's elderly?

It is not a duty that many 29-year-olds would enjoy. But she tells me she feels guilty that she can only do it once a week.Midori works the other six nights of the week at a nursing home caring for other elderly people while her grandmother stays at a different facility."It's a dilemma but I need to earn money because my family isn't wealthy," she said."I also want to continue working because ever since my grandfather died when I was 15, I've decided to become a care worker and it is my calling."But it comes at a cost. Midori dreams of going abroad. She misses spending time with her friends."I don't want my grandma to hear this but I am almost 30 and I worry if I can start my own family one day," she whispers."But I don't want to think about when my grandmother will stop waking me up. I want to be with her when she achieves her dream of turning 100," she says.

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