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

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.

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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 ...

Hiroshi Tanaka, born in 1937 and a co-representative of the Liaison Committee on Alien Rights Law, said Japan cannot cling to ...

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