An 81-year-old Japanese woman, Akiyo, commits crimes intentionally to avoid loneliness and receive stable living conditions ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Demographic Research Vol. 32, JANUARY - JUNE 2015 Living alone in Japan: Relationships wit... BACKGROUND One-person households are the most common type ...

A report published by Japan's National Institute of Population ... The number of people aged 65 or older living alone is projected to rise to 10.83 million by 2050, a 1.5-fold increase from ...

Akiyo was lodged in Tochigi Women's Prison, Japan's largest women's prison, located north of Tokyo. It houses nearly 500 ...

Despite the increasing number of elderly people living alone in Japan, landlords often refuse to rent them accommodations, raising government concerns over the growing problem. Three governmental ...

The number of childless elderly men who live alone will likely more than double to 5.2 million in 2050, outnumbering women living under the same circumstances, a study showed. The Japan Research ...

From a former nun in the English countryside to an elderly man living naked and alone on an island in Japan, there is no one picture of what a hermit looks like. Sister Rachel Denton, a former nun ...

It has always been my dream to live in Japan, and I'm so glad I did it ... I spent a lot of time alone. I also had this expectation that people were going to seek me out, and, being in such ...

Despairing grandmother who lives on meagre pension says she would rather take ‘stability’ of prison than life on outside.

A recent symposium on dementia featured Dr. Katarina Nagga, who discussed a Swedish program that emphasizes the importance of early detection and a people-centered approach.