Japan's prisons are feeling the strain from the country's aging population.

Japan's aging workforce, labor shortages, and government policies show how the country has adapted as 30% of its population ...

The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their ...

Whenever he’s home, 84-year-old Toshiaki Morioka carries an alarm device that measures temperature and humidity, which can summon emergency responders at the press of a button. He takes it to bed, to ...

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, known for its robust aging population, was ranked the healthiest country to age in by the National Center for Health Statistics in December. Okinawa, Japan, is also considered a blue zone, home ...

The Tokyo Fire Department said Sunday that seven men and women aged 80-96 were taken to hospital after choking on mochi on the first three days of the new year. One of them, a woman in her 80s, died.

A record amount in unclaimed inheritances ended up in Japanese government coffers last year, as the aging population sees ...

Despite the constant pressure to remain patient and compassionate, Nguyen Tan Tai is satisfied with his caregiving job as it ...

The National Police Agency and the Fire and Disaster Management Agency are urging elderly people to be careful when eating mochi rice cakes during the New Year holidays. The appeal is made every year ...

By 2050, Japan’s youth will inherit a transformed country, reshaped by population decline, longer lives and unprecedented ...