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GRAYING SOCIETY

Japan Times
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Nov 17, 2018
Kansai business community sees future foreign worker influx with both hope and concern
The news last week that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government is preparing to admit up to 345,000 foreign workers by 2023 has been met with a combination of hope they will help prop up agricultural, manufacturing and service sectors that are struggling to find workers, and concern that Abe has rushed through an immigration policy that will create massive social problems.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2018
New visa statuses proposed for blue-collar workers do not offer permanent residency: justice minister
Comments come as ministry details plan to allow people with knowledge and abilities Japan needs to work in the nation.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2018
Japan sees surge in foreign nursing care students
The number of foreign students enrolling in nursing care schools has nearly doubled this academic year amid a labor shortage in the heath care sector, according to the Japan Association of Training Institutions for Certified Care Workers.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 28, 2017
Wasteful spending on medical public works
Unless the current structure is fixed, there will be no hope of medical science becoming a core of the government's growth strategy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 28, 2017
Graying Japan wants automation, not immigration
A labor shortage could fuel the nation's next innovation boom.
EDITORIALS
Aug 19, 2017
Abe's HR development initiative
Prime Minister Abe must explain what benefits his latest initiative u2014 human resources development u2014 will bring people and at what cost.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 3, 2017
In tests across Japan, new tech allows speedy tracking of lost dementia patients
Japan's rapidly aging society is spurring technological innovation, including the use of a tracking system designed to help families and nursing facilities locate people suffering from dementia when they lose their way or go missing.
EDITORIALS
Oct 27, 2016
Foreign trainees as caregivers
The government shouldn't use the trouble-plagued foreign trainee program to fill manpower shortages in the nursing care sector.
EDITORIALS
Jul 26, 2016
Misconduct by adult guardians
Financial misconduct by lawyers and others serving as guardians for incapacitated adults risks ruining public trust in the adult guardianship system.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES
Jan 3, 2016
Options available to mitigate dangers of living alone with dementia
At first glance, it's hard to tell what's wrong with Keiko Sawada. As casual exchanges continue, however, it becomes increasingly clear the former bar hostess has serious memory problems.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 20, 2015
U.S. presidential candidates' flight from reality
There is a sobering disconnect between what America's presidential candidates are advocating and the large problems the country actually faces.
EDITORIALS
Jul 7, 2015
Shortage of nursing care workers
The number of nursing care workers is set to fall short of demand by 380,000 within a decade unless the government takes steps to make the industry more attractive.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 20, 2014
The high price of a long life
In the near future, advanced medical technology will greatly extend the lives of those who can afford to pay for it. But is it worth it?
EDITORIALS
Jun 6, 2014
Public pension reforms
A new labor and welfare ministry report highlights the possible need to extend the period during which workers pay premiums into national pension plans so that the benefits paid out to retirees can help sustain retirees' livelihoods at the levels promised.
JAPAN
May 8, 2014
Towns, small cities likely to lose half their women by 2040: think tank
Nearly half of Japan's municipalities are likely to see their populations young women shrink by more than half by 2040 compared with 2010 if the flight to major cities continues apace, a study by the Japan Policy Council said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 16, 2013
Raising fees for nursing care services
The government plans to raise the out-of-pocket share paid by "high-income" earners for services received under the elderly nursing care insurance system from 10 to 20 percent.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2013
Health care costs rise to record level
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.

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A statue of "Dragon Ball" character Goku stands outside the offices of Bandai Namco in Tokyo. The figure is now as recognizable as such characters as Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man.
Akira Toriyama's gift to the world