National Museum of Nature and Science
A 2008 Washington Post article reported that Japan, with a shortage of young workers, and a disinclination to take in immigrants, was “marching into the depopulated future with the help of robots ,” many of which were “on display...at the Great Robot Exhibition in Tokyo's National Museum of Nature and Science.” The Post paraphrased Fujie as telling foreign journalists that “service robots could help reduce government spending on health care, take over many dreary service jobs and prop up Japan's 'societal vitality.'”