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Foreign workers take notes during a meeting at a nursing care facility operator in Nagoya.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jul 24, 2023
Ministry panel starts talks to ease foreign care worker rules
The panel of experts will examine whether to allow foreign workers to engage in home-visit care services, currently not permitted partly due to concerns about language barriers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 20, 2023
Japan health insurance societies to log record loss in fiscal 2023
The National Federation of Health Insurance Societies, or Kenporen, said that its member societies are expected to log a record loss in fiscal 2023.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Apr 17, 2023
Fukushima care providers falling behind on business continuity planning
Without plans, it will be difficult to keep offering services during large-scale disasters, but amid a chronic labor shortage operators lack personnel to work on forward thinking.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 4, 2023
As Japan grays, young Indonesians train to fill caregiver vacancies
According to estimates, only about 130,000 of the 340,000 vacancies on a Japanese government program to employ foreigners with special skills, in sectors like caregiving, have been filled.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 26, 2023
Who will take care of Italy’s older people? Robots, maybe.
The Western world’s oldest population is facing a crisis of caregivers. Some are looking for a little helping, plastic, hand.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 20, 2023
Lacking health workers, Germany taps robots for elder care
An estimated 670,000 carer posts will go unfilled by 2050 in Europe's most populous country, which is also one of the world's most rapidly aging.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Mar 3, 2023
As China ages, investors bet they can beat retirement home stigma
Who takes care of the elderly in China, where pensions are tiny, is one of the major headaches policymakers face as they deal with the start of a demographic downturn.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2022
Japan to face a shortage of nearly 1 million medical and welfare staff in 2040
While 10.7 million such workers are projected to be necessary in 2040, only 9.74 million will be available, according to the 2022 white paper on health, labor and welfare.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2022
We're hiring: Babies wanted for Japan nursing home
New recruits at the facility must be under four years old, and their guardians have to sign a contract stipulating that the babies and can show up for work 'whenever they feel like it.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 25, 2021
For aging Japan, a cooker that makes chicken as soft as butter
The invention by two Panasonic Corp. engineers is designed to help people with swallowing difficulties.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 12, 2021
Nursing services in Japan juggling financial solvency and users' well-being
Should the government be turning to the private sector to provide care for the country's aging population?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / Longform
May 10, 2021
As the world grays, Japan’s aging market showcases high-tech senior care
Home to the oldest population anywhere on Earth, Japan offers an opportunity to startups operating on medtech's frontier.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 27, 2021
Enduring casualty of pandemic in the U.S.: Care for the dying with a human touch
COVID-19 has disrupted almost every aspect of comforting the terminally ill at the end.

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