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 ...
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. The rise in the number of foreign students ...
Unless the current structure is fixed, there will be no hope of medical science becoming a core of the government's growth strategy.
Graying Japan wants automation, not immigration
A labor shortage could fuel the nation's next innovation boom.
Prime Minister Abe must explain what benefits his latest initiative — human resources development — will bring people and at what cost.
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. As the country with the most aged population, Japan is ...
The government shouldn't use the trouble-plagued foreign trainee program to fill manpower shortages in the nursing care sector.
Financial misconduct by lawyers and others serving as guardians for incapacitated adults risks ruining public trust in the adult guardianship system.
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.
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.
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.
