The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, ...

Sompo Holdings, Inc., one of Japan's biggest insurance companies, says it's using artificial intelligence to help alleviate a critical shortage of workers needed to care for the country's aging ...

Japan’s New Year’s celebrations were cut short by a deadly earthquake that affected the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture. More than 230 deaths have been confirmed since the disaster struck the ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Who says playgrounds are just for children? In Japan, the world's fastest aging society, the elderly are the ones taking to the climbing frame these days. Many elderly Japanese ...

Japan's transition to a new health insurance ID system includes options for users, including a temporary provision allowing ...

MINAMI UONUMA, Japan -- When the harshest winter in two decades heaped five feet of ice and snow onto 71-year-old Takeo Tokozumi's creaky roof last month, the proud rice farmer and his wife weren't ...

Entrepreneurial young Japanese people are trying to reinvigorate Japan's most aged village — where more than two thirds of residents are over 65 — and keep it from vanishing from the map. Villages ...