Elderly people in Japan are getting “younger” in terms ... Study (JAGES), which is designed to examine the health of senior citizens nationwide. The study followed two groups of senior ...

TOKYO - Approximately 42,000 bodies went unclaimed in Japan in fiscal year 2023 and were ... amid a rise in elderly people who live alone without family support. The first study of its kind ...

The number of people age 65 or older who died alone at home reached 58,044 in 2024, the National Police Agency has announced. It is the first time that the agency has released the total figures on ...

Japan’s National Police Agency is considering limiting ATM withdrawals and transfers to a total of ¥300,000 ($3485) per day for people aged ... can be reduced,” a senior police official ...

Time and time again we hear reports of people being taken in by what is known as “special fraud” (tokushu sagi) in Japan. What makes fraud “special ... to new heights and issued a ban on seniors using ...

From Sunday until today, Japan’s state minister for foreign affairs Yoshifumi Tsuge is visiting Beijing “to deal with the death of a child at Shenzhen Japanese School,” the ministry said in ...

Approximately 42,000 bodies went unclaimed in Japan in fiscal 2023 and were subsequently cremated or buried by local ...