TOKYO (Reuters) - Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side -- a manoeuvre used ...

Sompo Holdings, Inc., one of Japan's biggest insurance companies, says it's using artificial intelligence to help alleviate a critical shortage of workers needed to care for the country's aging ...

Tokyo AI company Exawizards is using deep learning to analyze unstructured nursing care data such as audio and video recordings. Faced with a rapidly aging population, Japan is turning to new ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will actively promote the recruitment of nursing care staff from Southeast Asia, from fiscal year 2025, to cope with the serious labour shortage in ...

Desperation stalks the care industry. More and more people need care. Fewer and fewer can give it. It’s an impossible situation. It can’t continue. Something will have to happen. What? When? Nobody ...

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Japan's growing demand for caregivers is reshaping global healthcare migration patterns, drawing attention from countries ...

A Japanese nursing care company has opened a facility in the Philippines that offers Japanese-style elderly care.

We think Japan’s nonlife insurance sector has more appeal as a long-term investment than most other areas of Japanese finance, such as banking, securities or life insurance, because industrywide, the ...