Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama and health minister Kenichiro Ueno agreed Wednesday to raise medical service fees by 2.22% in fiscal 2026, the first increase in 12 years. Katayama and Ueno agreed to ...

Explore Singapore's healthcare outlook for 2026, focusing on enhanced elderly care, mental wellness support, and key ...

Reforms meant to boost local autonomy have been pursued for many years under the slogan “what can be done locally should be ...

Japan's service sector expanded at its slowest pace since May in December, as softer overall demand countered a rebound in ...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve the lower house of Parliament soon for a snap election to seek the public's mandate for her policies.

Facing high employee turnover and an aging population, nursing homes have increasingly turned to robots to complete a variety of care tasks, but few researchers have explored how these technologies ...

Private nursing homes within Japan's capital often have a move-in cost of more than 10 million yen (about $64,140), a recent ...

The recent film Rental Family, starring Brendan Fraser and directed by Hikari, has put a spotlight on a social phenomenon in ...

Microsoft 365 services in Japan and China have been fully restored after a widespread outage disrupted essential tools like Outlook and Teams. A routing fault within Microsoft's infrastructure caused ...

Bybit will begin phasing out services for residents of Japan from 2026, introducing gradual account restrictions as it moves to comply with the country’s regulatory requirements, the cryptocurrency ...

The Saitama District Public Prosecutors Office has decided to have a 22-year-old man arrested on suspicion of killing two elderly women in October at the nursing home where he used to work, undergo a ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – Just in time for a blizzard of gift packages, the Military Postal Service unveiled self-service parcel lockers at this airlift hub in western Tokyo. Base residents now may ...