Older workers are helping address a chronic labor shortage in the nation's nursing care sector, with many of them caring for clients in their own age group. Shigeto Hirata, 73, works in the daytime from Monday through Saturday, making home visits to people who need ...

Empowering elderly people in Japan's aging society is the key to reviving and sustaining economic growth in the world's third-largest economy, according to the head of a think tank unit of the Asian Development Bank. "Demography is the biggest problem for Japanese recovery," Naoyuki Yoshino, ...