The number of elderly people in Japan surged by 20,000 from September 2023 to 36.25 million, accounting for a record high ...

Elderly people aged 75 or older will increase in number in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward, which is bustling with high-rise apartment buildings, at a steeper rate than anywhere else in Japan through 2050. At the ...

Novel research shows that in approximately one third of countries and territories worldwide, population aging was the largest contributor to the growing burden of musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 ...

According to data compiled by the Japanese government, social security benefit costs will increase 1.6-fold from 2018 to ¥190 trillion in 2040. While Japan continues to shift towards a super-aging ...