The initiative will be carried out in collaboration with companies specializing in digital technology and will help ...

An elegant, 80-year-old “social entrepreneur,” she is not only one of Japan’s few female CEOs but one of the most innovative providers of elderly care in the world. Masue Katayama.

Japan is considering allowing foreigners under its revamped trainee program to change jobs after two years at their first ...

Around 2.15 million people are employed in the care sector in Japan but recent estimates suggest the country will face a shortage of around 570,000 by 2040.

TOKYO — Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will actively promote the recruitment of nursing care staff from Southeast Asia, from fiscal year 2025, to cope with the serious labour ...

Unfortunately, Nakamura’s predicament is an increasingly common one in Japan, where the turnover rate in the nation’s large care-giving sector hit just over 21% in 2007.

In an elementary school turned nursing home, Keichi Tasaka jokes with a group of cheerful old women. At 70, he could be mistaken for a resident, but Tasaka isn’t thinking of retiring anytime soon.

In Japan, robots are often assumed to be a natural solution to the “problem” of elder care. The country has extensive expertise in industrial robotics and led the world for decades in humanoid ...

Some 5,000 nursing-care institutions are now testing robots. Yoshiyuki Sankai, founder of Cyberdyne, a robotics firm that makes some of the most expensive gear, is undeterred.