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AGING 3

EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2015
Economizing on medical spending
Japan's medical expenditures are rising at an unsustainable pace and everyone is going to have to pitch in to keep costs down.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2015
Japan's cheap debt, aging population prompt ex-banker to shift focus
Saburo Nishiura is using Japan's record-low borrowing costs to turn the nation's shrinking population to his advantage.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2015
The future is gray for the developed world
Over the next three decades, the developed world is set to contend with many challenges related to rapid societal aging
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 27, 2015
Global life expectancy rises, but people live sicker for longer
People around the world are living longer, but many are also living sicker lives for longer, according to a study of all major diseases and injuries in 188 countries.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 17, 2015
South Korea comes full circle in one generation as aging crisis looms
It was only 20 years ago that South Korea was so intent on population control that getting sterilized put young couples on the fast track for public housing. Even the army was in on the act, offering a free pass from annual military training to any man willing to shuffle off for a vasectomy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 15, 2015
Research on brain disorders leads to superclever mice
Scientists have genetically modified mice to be super intelligent and found they are also less anxious, a discovery that may help in the search for treatments for disorders such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jul 15, 2015
Bigger may not be better for China's 'superhospitals'
Just before midnight, the sidewalk outside the glowing towers of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University is littered with slumbering bodies. Splayed on colorful mats or folding cots, these are patients' relatives.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 11, 2015
Former brain-eating tribe offers genetic clues to dementia and deadly diseases
Research involving a former brain-eating tribe from Papua New Guinea is helping scientists better understand mad cow disease and other so-called prion conditions and may also offer insights into Parkinson's and dementia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 10, 2015
Surviving flamboyantly in a super-aged society
The older you get, the more you need to live in the city. Simone de Beauvoir once said that to her biographer, and it's probably true. As an iconic presence on the streets of Paris until her death in 1986, de Beauvoir showed that city living was one of the secrets to aging well and living life to the...
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 6, 2015
Running to a standstill
Shall we run around this (2.1-km) course three times?
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 4, 2015
Wondering how long you have? Simple score gives 5-year death risk
Health researchers have developed a scientifically rigorous death risk calculator that predicts a person's risk of dying within five years and say they hope people will use it to improve their health.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 16, 2015
Is Japan becoming extinct?
The projected drop in the country's population raises some fundamental questions about its political and social future.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 29, 2015
Is there life after death for Japan's aging women?
When Katsumi Sakaguchi quit working as a documentary filmmaker in the spring 2008 to look after his mother Suchie, he thought he was doing the right thing. Then 78, Suchie was suffering from what Sakaguchi describes as "mental confusion" following the death of her daughter from cancer two years earlier...
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 2, 2015
Be kind to live long, world's oldest woman says from Arkansas
The world's oldest person, 116-year-old Gertrude Weaver of Arkansas, believes the key to longevity is treating other people kindly.

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