Abstract
According to the report of the Ministry of Public Welfare, people aged sixty five years old and over has climbed to fourteen percent of the total population in Japan in 1995. It is said that the aged population will get to twenty five percent of the total population after thirty years and will reach the point where one fourth of the Japanese population will be sixty five years old in the twenty first century. The speed of population aging in Japan is without precedent in world history. Under these circumstances, the aim of my report in the Symposium is to approach the problems of the aged in the Aging Society from the point of view of the Constitutional Law and Politics, and to pose the problem and task at the legal and political aspects. The matters I will to address in my report are as follows: l.The rights of the aged or Human Rights in relation to the aged in the Constitution of Japan. 2.Some of the problems that arise from the Welfare Law for the Aged, enacted in 1963. 3.The essence of the Right of Existence and the problems of independence of the aged. 4.The problem of the strong initiative of administrators in the area of the welfare for the aged. 5.The role and task of the aged in the era that Senior Citizens come to the fore.
