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's growing demand for caregivers is reshaping global healthcare migration patterns, drawing attention from countries ...

Yukiko Namekata, a resident at an elder care facility in Tokyo run by Zenkoukai, and her caregiver follow the movement of a miniature humanoid robot called PALRO. At top, AIREC, an artificial ...

A Japanese nursing care company has opened a facility in the Philippines that offers Japanese-style elderly care.

In Tokyo, a humanoid robot is being tested as a potential caregiver for Japan's aging population. Dubbed AIREC (AI-driven Robot for Embrace and Care), the system recently demonstrated its ability to ...

Japan has a significant and growing number of elderly individuals living alone. The estimate goes from a quarter to a third of the elderly population. With Japan's elderly population (aged 65 and over ...