By 2050, Japan’s youth will inherit a transformed country, reshaped by population decline, longer lives and unprecedented ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Kyoko Machiya should be enjoying life with grandchildren. Instead, the 64-year-old's home is a makeshift structure of boxes covered with blue plastic in a Tokyo park. Homelessness in ...

Japan’s centenarian population has reached a record high as the country continues to maintain the world’s longest life expectancy – a milestone officials credit to healthy lifestyles and fewer fatal ...

Japan has one of the longest life expectancies in the world. The neurosurgeon explains how discipline, prevention, and lifelong activity make the difference.

Talk about achieving milestones, and Japan will surprise you like no other country! The land of the rising sun has just reached a remarkable new milestone: as of September 1, 2025, nearly 100,000 ...

The notion of a greying Japan is nothing new. But 2025 is when the country will really start to feel its age. Japan’s baby-boomers, some 7m-8m people known as the dankai, born between 1947 and 1949, ...

I just read two fascinating articles about aging, one of which confirmed my deepest hopes and the other of which activated my deepest fears. I’ll start with the optimistic research: Under the headline ...