Inside Japan's Aging Population
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In Japan, where one fifth of the population is now over 65, a preview of a global future.
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Japan's economy has marked its longest economic expansion since World War II, according to a government report Wednesday.
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Japanese companies design 'helper robots' that could assist an aging population.
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Web-savvy Japanese aged over 50 surf online just as often as young people do, using the Internet to arrange travel and read news, a study said Friday.
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The birth of Princess Kiko's son ensures the continuation of the royal line. But the news shows how far women still have to go, even in modern Japan
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As JapanÂs youngest prime minister since World War II, and the first to be born after the war, Shinzo AbeÂs ascension appears to mark a changing of the guard.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to create a leaner government and foster innovation to pilot the debt-laden economy through threats posed by the shrinking and aging population.
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A country must surely have something big going for it when its people live the longest, but what does longevity mean for the health of Japan's economy?
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Thousands of elderly people who live  alone in Tokyo have little social contact and face the prospect  of a lonely death, according to a survey by an association of  hospitals published this week.
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WASHINGTON -- Japan, Germany and many other large industrialized countries face long-term population slowdowns or declines as more young adults have fewer children or delay child-rearing, demographers say.
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At 83, Saburo Iwata shows no sign of taking things easy.
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The annual study by the private Population Reference Bureau found that, while the world&#39;s population will increase nearly 50 percent by mid-century, Japan will lose 20 percent of its population in the next 45 years, while Russia, Germany and Italy will ...
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The number of Japanese living beyond 100 has almost quadrupled in the past 10 years, with the once-exclusive centenarian club expected to surpass 28,000 this year, the government said Friday.
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Faced with a prison population ageing as rapidly as the rest of the country, Japan is to build new jails with disabled access, including elevators, slopes for wheelchairs and grab-bars in toilets and baths.
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Japan's growing elderly population from will be able to buy companionship in the form of a 45-centimeter (18-inch) robot, programmed to provide just enough small talk to keep them from going senile.
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Sifting through the best that Japan has to offer.
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No other way to cope with monster vegetable menace In a further outre twist, the budding Japanese robot'n' exoskeleton industry plans to move into a new sector. Researchers in the land of the Rising Sun have exhibited a mighty powered suit which could see increasingly elderly farmers - lifespans prolonged indefinitely perhaps, by advancing medical technology - striding across the fields reaping crops and lifting heavy loads.â¦