Tsuneto Nakamura is an ambitious young man who jumped into Japan’s booming care-service industry at 24. Given the nation’s aging population, Nakamura thought caring for the elderly had a lot of room ...

One way of dealing with the shortage of doctors in nursing homes is to utilize nurse practitioners, or NPs. A new study looked at the effects of placing NPs in one nursing home in Japan. Programs ...

With guidance from the UCSF School of Nursing, a university in Japan has launched that country’s first-ever program for nurse practitioners (NPs). Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences is the ...

Indian health care workers are being eyed by Japan as a promising source of caregivers, with hopes that accessing labor from ...

Sompo Holdings, Inc., one of Japan's biggest insurance companies, says it's using artificial intelligence to help alleviate a critical shortage of workers needed to care for the country's aging ...

Japan faces a care worker shortage, and bodybuilders are stepping in as ‘Macho Caregivers’, combining strength and compassion for seniors. Visionary/ 7Seas Website Japan's rapidly ageing population ...

The cities are different. The hospitals are different. The food is different. But when nurses from The Medical Center, Navicent Health in Macon and Japan’s Kurobe City Hospital work together as part ...

Hailey Hinkley's shares her childbirth experience in Japan, where nurses provided exceptional care and surprised her with a heartfelt video one year later Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Masako Endo talks to her mother, Hiroko Tsukamoto, on Skype, while on a visit to the Life & Senior House Ichikawa in Ichikawa, Japan, on Aug. 24. Visitors are only allowed in the entrance lobby, where ...