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

Facing high employee turnover and an aging population, nursing homes have increasingly turned to robots to complete a variety of care tasks, but few researchers have explored how these technologies ...

Facing high employee turnover and an aging population, nursing homes have increasingly turned to robots to complete a variety ...

Mixi Inc.'s Romi, an empathetic emotional support robot unveiled at CES 2025, addresses isolation, anxiety, and depression, with plans for global expansion following its success in Japan.

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

Following the death of parents they do not live with, many people have found themselves at a loss regarding what to do with ...

A pilot program aims to connect Department of Defense civilians in Japan with local health care providers without paying ...

In early 2024, the World Health Organization predicted that by 2050 there will be more than 35 million new cancer cases ...

Japan’s additional sanctions and export restrictions are in line with the G7 attempt to prevent Russia from evading sanctions with help from third countries and include a ban on exporting ...

To address the problem, Tokyo mayor Yuriko Koike has pledged to subsidise epidural childbirth “as early as possible” to ...

Japan's Coming of Age Day is a sure sign of winter, arriving after New Year celebrations and ahead of the cherry blossom ...

The first thing I learned about Japan was that the summers are hot. Extremely hot and extremely humid. I learned this in ...