Japan's elderly population hit a record-high of 36.25 million in 2024, the same year that its birth rate reached a record low. Residents of Japan also have one of the longest life expectancies in ...

Supports are necessary for elderly people living alone, who are at risk of poverty. (Mainichi/Tomohiro Shibata) The number of applications for public assistance in Japan reached 255,897 in 2024 ...

Approximately 42,000 bodies went unclaimed in Japan in fiscal 2023 and were subsequently cremated or buried by local authorities, a recent government estimate showed, amid a rise in elderly people ...

Japan’s ageing population is facing a heartbreaking crisis, where some elderly individuals see prison ... and left to live in despair. "I made a poor decision and shoplifted, thinking it would ...

Japan's National Police Agency is considering setting a ceiling of ¥300,000 per day on the amount of money elderly people can withdraw or send from automated teller machines, it was learned Tuesday.

A researcher at Waseda University’s laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, plays an elderly patient to demonstrate how AIREC, an artificial intelligence-driven humanoid robot, can roll a person to their ...

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 ...

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

Approximately 42,000 bodies went unclaimed in Japan in fiscal 2023 and were subsequently cremated or buried by local authorities, a recent government estimate showed, amid a rise in elderly people ...