For your reference, the average growth rate of the total population and the growth rate of the working-age population from 1955 to 1975 were 1.3 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively. A quick cross-country comparison can confirm that Japan’s population and the growth rate of the working-age population in those days were relatively high, or sometimes even the highest, among the advanced countries.
Some Danish banks are still struggling, and the near future will also bring mergers and perhaps resolution of banks. But I believe that the problems have now been reduced to a size that is manageable within the existing framework – although a few adjustments may be  2  BIS central bankers’ speeches  necessary.