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People taking part in a session for frailty prevention volunteers in Sendai in September practice measuring calf circumference, a technique used during frailty checks.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Nov 9, 2026
Peer-support program for healthier aging gains ground in Sendai
The program, focused on frailty prevention, was launched in 2015, and similar programs are now active in more than 100 municipalities across Japan.
A new nursing care accident reporting system could help central and local governments quickly identify accidents and analyze the causes.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 9, 2026
Japan to launch online reporting system for nursing care accidents
The aim is to help local governments quickly identify accidents and share with the central government so it can collect more comprehensive data.
The number of cases of older people with dementia falling victim to unscrupulous door-to-door sales tactics is on the rise in Japan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 26, 2026
Unscrupulous businesses preying on older people with dementia
Experts say it is essential to establish a support system to protect this vulnerable group from businesses that try to take advantage of them.
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 24, 2026
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Village officials in Nanmoku, Gunma Prefecture, are hoping a sister-city agreement will help attract young people from Peru.
According to projections by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, demand for cremations will begin to outstrip existing normal capacity in the next decade.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 15, 2026
As population grays, Tokyo mulls more crematoria to meet demand
According to Tokyo Metropolitan Government projections, demand for cremations will begin to outstrip existing capacity in the next decade.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries President Yasuhiko Hashimoto poses with a prototype of the company’s dog-like robot, Home Leo, in Tokyo on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2026
Kawasaki Heavy unveils dog-shaped robot companion for older people
The robot stays close to those it lives with, offers companionship through conversation, watches over them and assists with their daily lives.
Kaori Kusakari lives with her cat, Purin, at Sakura no Sato Yamashina nursing care home in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2026
Older people find ways to keep living with pets
A nursing home in Kanagawa Prefecture is welcoming pets to stay in its facility along with their owners.
Japan has revised its healthcare system to raise the ceiling for out-of-pocket payments as it tries to slow spending in one of the world's most aged societies. But the change will also widen the disparity between insurers.
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Sep 30, 2026
今日吃瓜 health cost caps rise, widening gaps between insurers
今日吃瓜 healthcare system is often held up abroad as a model of universal coverage, but universal does not mean uniform.
An electric wheelchair falling into a roadside ditch
JAPAN / Society
Sep 21, 2026
Elderly warned of accidents involving nursing beds and wheelchairs
Between 2016 and 2025, there were 57 fatal cases related to nursing beds and wheelchairs.
The Jizo-dori shopping street, which is popular among elderly people, in the Sugamo district of Tokyo's Toshima Ward
JAPAN / Society
Sep 21, 2026
今日吃瓜 elderly population grows to its largest share yet
About 36.24 million people — 29.6% of the country’s population — are 65 and older, up 20,000 from a year earlier, government data shows.
Alzheimer's drug Lecanemab
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 21, 2026
Clinical trials for Alzheimer’s treatment face global shortage of participants
The shortage of trial participants risks slowing progress in dementia therapies, Alzheimer’s Disease International warns.
Shoko Yonezawa at the Kanagawa Kenritsu Sports Center swimming pool in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday. She is inspiring people decades younger than her.
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Sep 21, 2026
In superaged Japan, athletes are making waves well into their 90s
Regardless of age, engaging in sports brings multiple health benefits — the greater one’s physical fitness, the longer one tends to live.
An elderly man receives a checkup from a nurse inside his home in Tokyo in July 2024.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 19, 2026
Japan considers raising nursing care premiums for high-income elderly
The review comes as higher public pension payments burden low-income earners with higher nursing care insurance premiums.
The number of centenarians in Japan now exceeds 100,000 for the first time, a milestone that highlights the country's remarkable longevity.
JAPAN
Sep 15, 2026
Number of centenarians in Japan top 100,000 for first time
The number of centenarians in Japan reached 107,677 this year, up 7,914 from last year. Nearly all of them — 94,298 — were women.
A court on Thursday sentenced former taxi driver Kiyotaka Zanami, 79, to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for his role in a hit-and-run in Tokyo that resulted in the death of a corporate worker in 2024.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 3, 2026
Elderly taxi driver found guilty over fatal hit-and-run
Zanami’s taxi collided with Takeo Omura, who was walking in front of the vehicle in Toshima Ward around 2 a.m. on Jan. 13, 2024, according to the ruling.
Vehicles on the Chuo Expressway in Tokyo in August 2022. Accidents involving older drivers are a longstanding problem in Japan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 3, 2026
Older drivers with traffic violations face tougher test when renewing license
The National Police Agency plans to introduce a stricter test in fiscal 2027 to assess drivers’ ability more comprehensively.
The maximum speed on ordinary roads with no speed signs or road markings and no white center lines or median strips will be set at 30 kph, above which the risk of pedestrians suffering fatal injuries in accidents is said to spike.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2026
Japan to lower residential road speed limit from 60 to 30 kph
The measure aims to reduce accidents in urban areas with pedestrian-heavy narrow streets, marking a major shift as they account for around 70% of ordinary roads nationwide.
Among those in Japan taken to the hospital in July for heatstroke, 24,769 were age 65 or older, accounting for more than 60% of the total.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2026
Over 41,000 in Japan sent to the hospital for heatstroke in July
The 41,174 figure was the third highest for July since 2008, when the statistics were first compiled, following the 54,220 people logged in 2018 and 43,195 in 2024.
A wedding marks the beginning of a new chapter, but your spouse's death doesn't necessarily mean the end of marital obligations.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 21, 2026
What Japanese says when family obligations take an unexpected turn
Marriage may end with death, but family obligations can persist — and Japanese has words for the contradiction.
Hitoshi Kuwahara, the chief doctor of a clinic in Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture, examines a woman at an evacuation shelter in the city on Aug. 7 after a major earthquake struck the area in late July.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 20, 2026
Local doctor in earthquake-hit Kumamoto brings medical care to evacuees
Born and raised in the city of Uki in the prefecture, Hitoshi Kuwahara, 61, has been supporting community health for around three decades.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
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Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
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