People find relocating to Japan worth the effort, as long as you can jump through those administrative hoops and be open to a ...

Japan’s present challenges are our collective future. Just as no one wants to dwell on getting old, Ui says, most people don’t give nursing care a second thought until a parent becomes ill and ...

Japan has been struggling to cope with a combination of anaemic economic growth and a shrinking population for over 30 years. 2025 marks the tipping point when the rising costs outstrip the country's ...

Osaka will become the first region in Japan to ban people aged 65 and above from using ATMs while on mobile phones. The move is aimed at curbing phone-based fraud that targets the elderly ...

For 16 generations, master gardeners in this one family have dedicated their lives to preserving one of the nation's most ...

A woman who rented a "Japanese old man" for the day has revealed she ... weird or illegal is allowed," she said. "After several people replied saying they were busy, I finally got a 'Yes' and ...

On a larger scale, the royal’s death brings Japan’s “rapidly dwindling” Imperial family to just 16 people, CNN reported, “as the country faces the dilemma of how to maintain the royal ...

it's also the domain of 97-year-old Tōemon Sano: Japan's most renowned sakuramori (cherry blossom guardian). For more than a millennium, Japanese people have admired the delicate sakura petals as ...