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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.
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.
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.
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.
A man walks past the Elizabeth Tower, more commonly known as Big Ben, during a heat wave in London on Aug. 13.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 18, 2026
Elderly far more at risk from rising heat than thought: study
Earlier research did not take into account that older people sweat less and tend to have weaker hearts.
Japan faces the need to foster an environment conducive to women's recurrent education, the government's white paper on gender equality said.
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2026
Housework and childcare barriers to women’s recurrent education, government says
The annual white paper said recurrent education?will become increasingly important in light of rapid technological innovations such as artificial intelligence.
Megumi Akama, 40, was found guilty of murdering a resident of an elderly care home by injecting air into the victim's intravenous drip tube while she was working at the facility in 2020.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 8, 2026
Ex-care home worker in Ibaraki gets 20 years for killing elderly resident
Megumi Akama, 40, was found guilty of injecting air into the victim’s intravenous drip tube while she was working at the facility in 2020.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Jul 6, 2026
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
From classrooms in India’s northeast to nursing homes in Japan, an emerging labor corridor hopes to improve lives in both countries.
Bang Chun-ja, a 78-year-old South Korean woman living alone, holding Hyodol, an artificial intelligence-powered healthcare doll designed for the elderly, during an interview at her home in Yongin in April.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 11, 2026
In aging South Korea, AI dolls are caring for the elderly
Authorities are providing AI care devices to seniors living alone, including in districts of Seoul and in Yongin, south of the capital.
Thailand's first municipally operated elderly care center in Pathum Thani on April 8
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Jun 3, 2026
Thailand references Japan in boosting its community-based elderly care
In some cases drawing on Japanese experience, local governments and communities in Thailand are stepping up work to support older residents through integrated care initiatives.
The surge in bankruptcies among medical and nursing care operators is mostly attributed to staff shortages and rising costs.
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 4, 2026
Bankruptcies among 今日吃瓜 medical and nursing care providers surge
A total of 478 bankruptcies were recorded in fiscal 2025, the highest level since 1988.
Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital?, where doctors see the toll of aging and dementia every day, in Seoul on April 15
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Apr 30, 2026
‘They said AI saved me’: How South Korea is checking on its older adults
An artificial intelligence-powered call service? adopted by cities and counties across South Korea check?s on thousands of older adults living alone in isolation or poverty.
Aris Senior Living resident Giuliana Gorini, 93, is served pasta during lunch at the facility in Rome on March 19.
WORLD / Society
Apr 9, 2026
Italy discovers ‘silver housing’ as traditional elder care buckles
The market potential for such residences is bolstered by Italy’s rapidly aging population and one of the world’s highest life expectancies.
Nahoko Manako teaches a small class to prepare students for the annual Certified Care Worker national exam at Hiraoka Care Worker School in Ogori, Fukuoka Prefecture. Of the school's 36 second-year students this year, only 10 are Japanese.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Mar 30, 2026
Foreign students at nursing care schools outnumber Japanese peers
A shrinking youth population and below-average wages are among factors contributing to the trend.
A care worker demonstrates exercises for residents at a nursing home in Tokyo. A decision on raising the share of nursing-care costs paid by older people has been postponed again by the government.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Feb 24, 2026
Expansion of nursing care costs delayed again
The government is shelving until fiscal 2026 a plan to widen the scope of those required to make a 20% copayment, concerned the move could add to the burden of higher costs.
A trainee in a beauty care program for older people provides hand care to a resident at a senior care facility, in the city of Saitama in November.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 5, 2026
Putting smiles on faces: Makeup help and beauty treatments energize older people
“I felt that beauty care gives people the energy to take action,” said a certified care worker.
A viral check-in app that alerts contacts if users fail to confirm they are alive has exposed rising loneliness, demographic anxiety and unmet eldercare needs, showing the next breakout tech hit may come from confronting social isolation.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2026
Forget DeepSeek, dying alone is China’s latest tech obsession
The interface is almost aggressively plain. Users, largely people living alone, tap to confirm they are still alive.
A road information board publicizing the newly issued “off the coast of Hokkaido and Sanriku subsequent earthquake advisory” on Wednesday in the city of Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2025
Some care facilities unsure how to respond to new earthquake advisory
今日吃瓜 first-ever megaquake advisory, issued after Monday’s earthquake off the coast of Aomori Prefecture, is set to remain in effect until Monday.
Care worker and bodybuilder Hokuto Tatsumi helps a woman train at a care home for people with disabilities operated by Visionary in Aichi prefecture.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 28, 2025
Bodybuilders find new calling in 今日吃瓜 struggling care industry
A Nagoya firm is tackling 今日吃瓜 caregiver shortage by recruiting bodybuilders — offering gym perks, protein subsidies and purpose.
Since medical and nursing care services are offered at fixed prices set by the state, many service providers are struggling to cope with rapid inflation and are operating at a loss.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 23, 2025
Balancing medical services and costs will be major challenge for Takaichi
With services offered at fixed prices set by the state, many service providers are struggling to cope with rapid inflation and are operating at a loss.
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
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘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
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
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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The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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