Japan’s Health, Labour and Welfare Ministry will actively promote the recruitment of nursing care staff from South-east Asia from fiscal year 2025, to cope with the serious labour shortage in ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will actively promote the recruitment of nursing care staff from Southeast Asia, from fiscal year 2025, to cope with the serious labour ...

MATSUYAMA -- A social welfare corporation in the west Japan city of Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, is pushing ahead with a digital transformation to support foreign employees while improving care ...

New research suggests that using robots in nursing homes has a positive influence on employee retention, hiring rates and ...

For the study on robots in nursing homes, Notre Dame researchers drew on surveys of Japanese nursing homes taken in 2020 and 2022.

Tomiko Itooka, the world's oldest person from Japan, passed away at 116 in her nursing home in Ashiya. Born in 1908, she ...

Itooka was named the world’s oldest living person by the Guinness World Records in 2024 after Spain’s Maria Branyas Morera ...

Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, who was believed to be the oldest person in the world, passed away at a nursing home in Japan's ...