Editorials May 24, 2018
Discussions must start now on making sure the social welfare system can meet Japan's future needs.
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Business May 24, 2018
Japan enlists private-sector firms in campaign to tame ballooning health care costs
Japan's public sector is turning to the private sector to help slow the rapid growth in the nation's health care spending. Faced with a rapidly graying population that's projected to push up heath care spending by more than 50 percent in the decade through 2025, ...
World / Science & Health May 23, 2018
Over a fifth of world population will be obese within 27 years: study
In 27 years from now over a fifth of the global population will be obese, researchers said Wednesday, warning of likely growth in costs for medical care. If current trends continue 22 percent of people in the world will be obese by 2045, up from ...
Asia Pacific / Science & Health May 22, 2018
The nurse, with two young children and a husband working overseas, scrawled the words in blue pen as she lay dying in an Indian hospital isolation ward, sick with a rare and deadly virus. "I think I am almost on my way. I may not ...
Asia Pacific / Social Issues May 22, 2018
A third of girls in South Asia miss school during periods: report
More than a third of girls in South Asia miss school during their periods, a report said Tuesday, with a lack of toilets and cultural taboos about menstruation among the factors impeding their education. The study by WaterAid and UNICEF also found many girls across ...
How-tos | LIFELINES May 20, 2018
My company didn't enroll me in the Japanese social insurance program. What to do?
by Nahoko Amemiya
A non-Japanese worker wrote to Lifelines with some questions about the shakai hoken social insurance system.
Commentary / Japan Mar 28, 2018
Where there's smoke, there's death
by Robert J. Geller
With passive smoking claiming 15,000 lives a year, there is no room for the government to compromise on measures to protect the public.
National Mar 4, 2018
Prefectures, cities to spend heavily on disaster mitigation in fiscal 2018
A total of 58 prefectural and municipal governments across the nation plan to spend a collective ¥268.4 billion on projects to bolster infrastructure against natural disasters in fiscal 2018 amid central government threats of reduced subsidies, a tally found. The sum includes ¥236.2 billion in ...
Business / Tech Feb 25, 2018
Pioneering nonprofit aims to steer AI toward the greater good
As debate swirls on whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or a curse for humanity, two Indian-American entrepreneur brothers are out to ensure the emerging technologies don't just benefit the richest in society. Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani last week launched what is billed as ...
National / Science & Health Feb 23, 2018
Survey shows end-of-life care planning still limited in Japan
A majority of people in Japan favor making formal plans about the health care they would like to receive at the end of their lives, but only a small proportion have actually done so, a health ministry survey showed Friday. The survey conducted in December, ...
Business / Tech Feb 18, 2018
Triumphant in online retail, cloud computing, organic groceries and streaming television, Amazon founder and chief "disruptor" Jeff Bezos is turning his seemingly limitless ambition to health care. Amazon, which was launched as an internet bookseller nearly 24 years ago, has branched into offerings including voice-commanded ...
Asia Pacific Feb 7, 2018
Fake doctor accused of infecting 46 Indians with HIV arrested
Indian police Wednesday arrested an unlicensed doctor accused of infecting at least 46 people with HIV by re-using a syringe, the latest case to expose the paucity of health care in the country of 1.25 billion. Police in Uttar Pradesh tracked down Rajendra Yadav, who ...