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Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his attempt to topple the Italian government, leaving him weaker than ever and zapping the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from ...
Hatsudai has a lot going for it. This quiet low-rise residential neighborhood just minutes west of Shinjuku boasts a friendly traditional shōtengai (shopping street) and a lively annual Awa Odori dance festival. Now add to that a really outstanding restaurant. Anis opened in early ...
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI. For years, the charismatic young star of the kabuki world has never long been out of the ...
Reigning champion Kei Nishikori made quick work of Feliciano Lopez, walloping the Spaniard in a straight-sets victory Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rakuten Japan Open. The world No. 13 Nishikori needed little over an hour to put away Lopez, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 ...
The idea of getting old scares most of us. We don’t want to think about getting wrinkles, becoming bedridden or succumbing to Alzheimer’s disease. Still, we must come to terms with the fact that growing old is a reality for all of us lucky ...
Hospitals and clinics across Japan earned a record high ¥38.4 trillion in fiscal 2012, topping an average of ¥300,000 per person for the first time, preliminary estimates by the health ministry show. This was 1.7 percent, or ¥600 billion, more than the previous year ...
The central and local governments should begin concrete efforts to build an effective network so the transition from caring for the elderly in special nursing care facilities to caring for them in their own homes will go smoothly.
The moment the babies, cradled in their mothers’ arms, entered the room, a round of cheerful “oohs” and “aahs” gushed from the elderly whose faces until then had been expressionless. Some smiled and some opened their eyes wide as they looked at the babies. ...
Japan Post Co. said Monday it will begin offering support services for the elderly in October by making use of its mail delivery network, stepping beyond its postal, savings and insurance businesses for the first time. The nominally privatized mail firm has a nationwide ...
A government panel's report on social welfare reform includes many issues that must be resolved, including how to cut costs without compromising the quality of health care.
A quarter of a million bedbound elderly people are kept alive in Japan, often for years, by a feeding tube surgically inserted into their stomach. A few months ago, my 96-year-old grandmother became one of them. Feeding tubes are so common in Japan that ...
With campaigning for Sunday’s House of Councilors election in full gear, middle-aged and elderly voters who fled Fukushima during the nuclear crisis feel increasingly left out of the loop. Since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, they have spent two years and four months ...
The number of people aged 65 or older caught shoplifting in Tokyo has been rising, with the elderly outnumbering those 19 or younger in 2012 for the first time since 1989, when officials started compiling comparable date. Police officials believe shoplifting by the elderly ...
The number of elderly households marked a record high of 10,241,000 in 2012, a government survey showed Thursday, another sign of the graying of Japanese society. The figure accounted for 21.3 percent of households in Japan, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. ...
The National Police Agency is warning older people to beware of so-called grandparent scams, which have seen a sharp uptick in both number and value recently. In the first four months of this year, there were 1,573 incidents involving a total of some ¥5 ...
The practice of young people becoming lodgers in the homes of elderly people is undergoing a revival, thanks to the rapid aging of the population. Sachio Yamamoto, 83, accepted Shusuke Kondo, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Fukui, as a boarder in his ...