Experts say Japan's success comes down to a culture that respects the elderly, as well as taking the pandemic seriously from the beginning.

Despite the constant pressure to remain patient and compassionate, Nguyen Tan Tai is satisfied with his caregiving job as it ...

Tsuneto Nakamura is an ambitious young man who jumped into Japan’s booming care-service industry at 24. Given the nation’s aging population, Nakamura thought caring for the elderly had a lot of room ...

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 ...

With guidance from the UCSF School of Nursing, a university in Japan has launched that country’s first-ever program for nurse practitioners (NPs). Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences is the ...

One way of dealing with the shortage of doctors in nursing homes is to utilize nurse practitioners, or NPs. A new study looked at the effects of placing NPs in one nursing home in Japan. Programs ...

Tokyo — Health care workers the world over are coping with inadequate gear, punishing schedules and a disease without a cure. In Japan, nurses and doctors shoulder an additional burden — abuse, ...

The cities are different. The hospitals are different. The food is different. But when nurses from The Medical Center, Navicent Health in Macon and Japan’s Kurobe City Hospital work together as part ...

Nurses in Japan are pushing back against a request by Olympic organizers to help with medical care during the upcoming summer Games in Tokyo, The Associated Press reported The nurses are reportedly ...

Hailey Hinkley's shares her childbirth experience in Japan, where nurses provided exceptional care and surprised her with a heartfelt video one year later Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.