The number of elderly people in Japan surged by 20,000 from September 2023 to 36.25 million, accounting for a record high ...

For Yoko Toshima, winter hits harder these days. “Perhaps it is because I am getting older, but the way the snow falls seems more extreme than before,” she said. During the warmer months, the ...

SUNAGAWA, Japan (Reuters) -A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a handful of city officials and hunters. The bear had ...

Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Call it a sign of the times. In Japan, adult diapers are starting to outsell those for babies. That as birthrates there ...

Their passionate chants of “jasso, joyasa” (meaning “evil, be gone”) echoed through a ceder forest of the northern Japan’s Iwate region. Japan's "Sominsai" festival is the latest tradition impacted by ...

Thailand is aging faster than Japan; CEO shared Japan's policy and care lessons in the keynote, and lectured on ...

Japan's care industry is facing a shortage of workers, and one company is plugging the gap by deploying 'cool' and well-toned ...

According to the IMF World Economic Outlook report, Japan’s nominal GDP — that is, unadjusted for inflation — is expected to fall 0.2%, year-on-year, to $4.23 trillion in 2023, while Germany’s is ...