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Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I’m your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Among the demographic quirks of modern Japan
is a growing flood of rural women into cities,
with grave consequences for their hometowns.
We discover what local governments are doing to keep more women from going or to lure them back.
And, once upon a time, boredom was seen as a scourge, a danger, a sign of societal decay.
And Britons had it real bad.
These days, it could be said, they’re not bored enough.
But first...
One of the world’s largest companies is getting a new boss.
Apple has announced that John Ternes will be taking the reins in September.
The changeover is not exactly a surprise, but the choice of successor is worth a closer look.
One of really the hallmarks of Tim Cook’s 15-year tenure at the helm of Apple
has been his incredible reliability.
And that seems to be true even when it comes to succession.
Tom Lee-Devlin is The Economist’s business editor.
Many had expected Tim Cook to step aside this year,