At least 68 people died during the winter – all but 10 of them over 65 – when record-breaking snow hit the country’s north.

As Japan’s population ages and youth cohorts shrink, universities are looking outward. At the University of Tokyo, Kaori Hayashi helps lead the push for international students.

A Yakult Lady might work 4 days a week, visiting between 30 and 50 houses, stopping at times to chat and inquire after a person's wellbeing.

Every G7 nation's fertility rate dropped below replacement levels in the 1970s. Fifty years later, the pension bill is coming due, and organizations are not ready.

It's a historic leap from the post-Communist ruins of 1989-90 to today's European growth champion that economists say has lessons on how to bring prosperity to ordinary people.

Population aging is no longer seen as a social welfare burden, but as a potential new economic space. HCMC is positioning the development of a silver economy ecosystem as a strategy to maintain ...

The number of people identifying as Buddhist worldwide fell over the past decade, with researchers pointing to an ageing ...

With a shrinking population and a rapidly aging society, the country is moving away from the demand-deficient conditions that characterized much of the post-bubble era.

Closer home, India’s population will continue to grow briefly from its current 1.5 billion to 1.7 billion, and then drop back to 1.5 billion by 2100—leaving the population unchanged after a 75-year ...

Aging well increasingly is being defined not simply by longevity or the absence of disease, but by functional ability, social ...

Japan is 30 years ahead in their generational wealth journey—and 9 million abandoned homes are the haunting warning for ...

Scientists at Kyoto University in Japan have developed an AI-powered robot Buddhist monk. Primedia's Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman says that it has been trained in centuries of Buddhist ...