Japan approved a record $730 billion budget as it ramped up spending on its aging population. Official data this year showed that Japan’s elderly population — those 65 or older — amounted to nearly a ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used ...

Japan has a higher proportion of over-65s than most countries, but is also researching a slew of technologies to stave off the ageing process and increase people’s healthspan. If asked to name a ...

The U.S. population is older than ever, and that trend is accelerating. As baby boomers age and birth rates decline, the country is heading toward a demographic reality that Japan has been grappling ...

Japan's prisons are feeling the strain from the country's aging population.

The process of aging is associated with a decline in immune functions and persistent low-level inflammation. Now, researchers ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a Tokyo high-rise is a robot. Japanese researchers hope that robots like this one will ...