Japan will actively recruit workers from Southeast Asia as nursing care staff starting from fiscal year 2025, amid a labor shortage in the field. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said the move ...

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 ...

Indian health care workers are being eyed by Japan as a promising source of caregivers, with hopes that accessing labor from ...

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 ...

(RNS) — Inspired by her Catholic faith, the ‘social entrepreneur’ is not only one of Japan’s few female CEOs but one of the most innovative providers of elderly care in the world. YOKOHAMA, Japan (RNS ...

Japan's concerns over labor shortages is driving more companies to recruit overseas. This is especially true in the nursing care sector, which is facing an estimated shortage of 570,000 workers by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In an elementary school turned nursing home, ...

Japan’s artificial intelligence expertise is transforming the elder care industry, with niche robotic caregiving accomplishing more than just taking pressure off the critical shortage of caregivers.