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Why Japan isn’t afraid of robots

Last week, the consulting firm McKinsey released its latest report on the future of work, this time in relation to women. It described how robots are performing human tasks at an accelerating rate — and dolefully warned that “160m women could lose their current jobs to automation” in the next 12 years.

McKinsey stressed that automation also creates jobs. But I doubt that point was widely heard. After all, we live in an age when workers and politicians in the US and Europe are terrified that automation will undermine employment — a fear that may even be contributing to the rise of populism and extremist politics.

But as the hand-wringing about digitisation continues apace, it is worth looking at one country where robots do not seem to inspire quite so much fear: Japan. Last week, I made a trip to Tokyo and was struck by how much more positive the public debate about automation seems.

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吉蓮•邰蒂

吉蓮•邰蒂(Gillian Tett)擔任英國《金融時報》的助理主編,負責全球金融市場的報導。2009年3月,她榮獲英國出版業年度記者。她1993年加入FT,曾經被派往前蘇聯和歐洲地區工作。1997年,她擔任FT東京分社社長。2003年,她回到倫敦,成爲Lex專欄的副主編。邰蒂在劍橋大學獲得社會人文學博士學位。她會講法語、俄語、日語和波斯語。

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