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 ...

The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899. The government data ...

Television producer Yamamoto Kazuhiro makes his directing debut with a full-length documentary about 104-year-old Ishii Tetsuyo, who has lived on her own since the passing of her husband 20 years ...

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 ...

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 ...

She always felt a void in her life and due to this, set out to Japan to rent a 'dad'. She 'rented' Mr. Natori, a 63-year-old ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family have prayed for all the war dead in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II ...

People from across Japan will go on pilgrimages to certain ... Nicola Tree That Mingei continues to inspire shows that the century-old movement has an enduring appeal. Indeed, Mingei may be ...