A major nursing care provider has responded to Japan’s caregiver shortage by opening a training facility near New Delhi in India this month, to teach Japanese and caregiving-techniques to recruits.

TOKYO -- Japan's Gakken Holdings will begin operating nursing-care facilities in Myanmar, continuing the company's expansion into Asian markets where demand is expected to grow as the population ages.

Tsuneto Nakamura is an ambitious young man who jumped into Japan’s booming care-service industry at 24. Given the nation’s aging population, Nakamura thought caring for the elderly had a lot of room ...

A Tokyo Shoko Research spokesperson. The Japanese nursing care service industry has seen a surge in bankruptcies, bucking the downtrend of overall corporate bankruptcies in the country, according to ...

Japan will actively recruit workers from Southeast Asia as nursing care staff starting from fiscal year 2025, amid a labor shortage in the field. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said the move ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Washburn University’s School of Nursing welcomed foreign exchange students last week from Fukuoka University in Japan. Twelve Japanese nursing students and their instructor took ...

One way of dealing with the shortage of doctors in nursing homes is to utilize nurse practitioners, or NPs. A new study looked at the effects of placing NPs in one nursing home in Japan. Programs ...

A committee of experts from the welfare ministry aims to allow more non-Japanese to join the home-care industry to counter the current shortage of caregivers. In a meeting on June 19, the committee ...

A wave of coronavirus infections and deaths hit the Kei-Ai Los Angeles Healthcare Center over the holidays. It has recorded at least 97 COVID-19 deaths. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Tracy ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at a meeting of the public price evaluation review committee at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 9, 2021. (Mainichi/Kan Takeuchi) TOKYO -- Japanese ...