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 ...

Tokyo, April 14 (Jiji Press)--The National Police Agency has said that 58,044 elderly people living alone died at home in Japan in 2024, disclosing such a figure on an annual basis for the first time.

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.

With more Japanese elderly falling victim to scams, the police are considering limiting the amount of money that this vulnerable group can withdraw or transfer from automatic teller machines (ATMs).

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 ...

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

The statistics show that there is a tendency for so-called lonely deaths of people younger than 65 to take longer to be discovered compared with elderly people. In a time of both misinformation ...