The jobs — and aging faces — behind South Korea's record low unemployment numbers
The country logged a record-setting run of low unemployment through February, at 2.7%, with almost half of the job increases driven by people 60 and older.
The game of life, reimagined for a superaging society
In Community Coping, players are tasked with preventing communities from collapsing by connecting troubled residents with the right experts.
How to get hired if you're an older worker
The median retirement account balance for older workers in the age of COVID-19 is $15,000, which means it's likely many of those workers are looking to jump right back into the labor pool.
Younger Americans benefited less from COVID booster shots than older people
Several recent studies have found that vaccination alone, without boosters, remained strongly protective against severe illness and death in most people, even after omicron’s appearance.
In Japan, a thousand digital eyes keep watch over the elderly
The surveillance programs offer the promise of protecting those in cognitive decline while helping them retain some independence, but they have also evoked fears of authoritarian overreach.
Japan must restore trust in the future among the young — here’s how
According to the Cabinet Office, just 38.8% of Japanese youth are either satisfied or fully satisfied with the state of the country compared with 57.8% in the U.S. and 56.9% in England.
For aging Japan, a cooker that makes chicken as soft as butter
The invention by two Panasonic Corp. engineers is designed to help people with swallowing difficulties.
A new source of fuel in an aging Japan: adult incontinence
Waste from adult diapers is growing by tens of thousands of tons a year in Japan. One town may have a solution: recycle it into fuel pellets.
Local governments in Japan helping elderly people learn how to use smartphones
Japan's "digital divide" came into focus when older people without internet access faced roadblocks for making COVID-19 vaccine reservations.
107-year-old Japanese identical twins recognized as world's oldest
Sumiyama and Kodama were born on Nov. 5, 1913, on Shodo Island, Kagawa Prefecture, as the third and fourth of a total of 11 siblings.
Five-year prison term finalized for 90-year-old blamed for fatal crash
Over two years after the deaths of a mother and daughter in Ikebukuro, the 90-year-old driver responsible has accepted a five-year sentence.
Former top bureaucrat won't appeal ruling over fatal Ikebukuro car crash
Tokyo District Court recently sentenced 90-year-old Kozo Iizuka to five years in prison without suspension for negligence over the accident in 2019 that killed two and injured nine.
