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

Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with few young people working in agriculture. But now its farmers are getting help from a robot called Adam.

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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

Japan's population, which stands at about 125 million, is projected to plummet to 87 million by 2070. The fertility rate—the number of births expected per woman's lifetime—dropped to 1.20 births per ...

Wage hikes are broadening in Japan as structural labour shortages have made firms more aware of the need to keep hiking pay, ...

but Lee's research broke new ground by analyzing long-term care - and by looking at the different types of robots used in this setting. Researchers drew on surveys of Japanese nursing homes taken in ...

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