The Alzheimer’s Association estimates that 4.6 million people could have dementia.

On January 23, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae dissolved the Diet and called for a Lower House election on February 8.

Emotions ran high at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday as giant panda fans gathered in large numbers to bid a fond farewell to twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei as they left Japan for ...

An international collaboration of researchers have successfully adapted a Japanese oral health screening tool for use among ...

Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, admitted to killing former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a campaign speech in the western city of Nara.

With Japan's rapidly aging population putting mounting pressure on medical and nursing care systems, local governments are ...

Analysis of the medical records of 1,269 elderly patients with advanced cancer by researchers at University of Tsukuba has found that more than 70% were prescribed potentially inappropriate ...

The remarks came during talks in Cairo with a delegation from Japan’s House of Councillors, which focused on strengthening development cooperation between the two countries. Morsy described Japan’s ...

Egypt plans to expand a Japanese-supported early childhood education model nationwide and is studying Japan’s elderly care programmes for potential cooperation, Social Solidarity Minister Maya Morsy ...

Shi Yong, minister of the Chinese embassy in Japan, delivers a speech at the China (Nanning)-Japan Investment Promotion and Economic Cooperation Exchange Conference in Tokyo on March 27. [Photo by ...

1 School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan. 2 School of Nursing, Sendai Seiyo Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan. Japan is aging at an unprecedented pace and has the ...