Japan faces a care worker shortage, and bodybuilders are stepping in as 'Macho Caregivers', combining strength and compassion ...

At the special nursing home Ainohana in this Gunma Prefecture town, a Filipino worker leads an elderly female resident to the ...

They get paid in formula and diapers, and their work hours are flexible, in a program that connects people across generations and brightens lives. By Hikari Hida and John Yoon TOKYO — Cooing, giggling ...

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 ...

KITAKYUSHU, Japan — Once a week, Rena Shinohara heads off to work, clocking in for a shift at a job one could say she was born to do. Rena, 18 months, is a baby worker at a Japanese nursing home, ...

The country wanted robots to help care for the elderly. What happened? It’s a picture you may have seen before: a large white robot with a cute teddy bear face cradling a smiling woman in its arms.

A nursing home in southwestern Japan is hiring some unusual new employees: babies. The generous compensation package from the Moyai Seiyukai home in Kitakyushu city includes flexible hours, baby ...

Research in Japan shows that openness and trust are key to accepting home-care robots, impacting willingness to share ...