She says she is happy to step back from her role at a non-profit organization in Tokyo, but she is also more than a little worried. It is a common refrain in a country with a rapidly aging population, ...

By 2035 more than one-quarter of Tokyo will be over 65, and many of those people will live alone. In Shinjuku’s Golden Gai, an entertainment district lined with hundreds of tiny bars ...

Most municipalities did not have protocol for dealing with how long bodies should be kept before cremation. Read more at ...

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