Is Resident Evil 5 racist? A video game about zombies seems like an unlikely catalyst for a discussion of race, but Capcom’s upcoming horror title kicked off just such a firestorm in the gaming community this week and could eventually spark a much larger conflagration. Resident Evil 5 was unveiled last year at the Electronic Entertainment Expo and created a bit of stir with its portrayal of... 

A lesson for the West? With a surfeit of the old and a shortage of the young, Japan is on course for a population collapse unlike any in human history. What ails this prosperous nation could be treated with babies. Yet many young women here do not want children, and the Japanese will not tolerate a lot of immigrants. So government and industry are marching into the depopulated future with the help...