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Development of Puyo Puyo puzzle game for use in nursing homes underway
- Master Blaster
Feb 24, 2026 - Tweet
Make your golden years your red, green, and blue years.
Japanese city abolishes 88th birthday celebratory money gift because people are living longer
- Krista Rogers
Sep 30, 2025
A city’s longstanding tradition is no more as something that’s very good for its residents turns out to be very bad for its budget.
- Japan
- (88 • age milestone • aging population • COK • Keiro no Hi • money • Okazaki • old • respect for the aged day • seniors • society)
Rental grandma service growing in Japan, can help cook or break up with boyfriends
- Master Blaster
Jul 8, 2025
Get a grandma delivered right to your door.
- Japan
- (aging population • crazy • grandmothers • obaachan • OK Obaachan • rental grandma • rental service • seniors • society • weird)
Japan worried about its aging population… of traffic lights
- Master Blaster
Jul 4, 2025
The spirit is willing, but the light is weak.
- Japan
- (aging population • Driving in Japan • infrastructure • National Police Agency • traffic lights)
Deaths way up, births way down yet again in Japan as population shrinks faster than expected
- Master Blaster
Mar 5, 2025
At least there are some things you can rely on these days.
- Japan
- (aging population • birth rate • culture • death rate • economy • Ministry of Heath Labor and Welfare • population • population decline • statistics)
Japanese mountain community’s first baby in 52 years celebrates first birthday
- Casey Baseel
Nov 7, 2024
Parents want to raise baby in rural community, and community is happy to have her.
Japan’s foreign population reaches historic milestone following largest-ever single-year surge
- Casey Baseel
Jul 25, 2024
Japan’s population, and workforce, continues to internationalize.
- Japan
- (aging population • COK • foreigners in Japan • internationalism • shrinking population • society)
If Japanese men “have their act together,” Japanese women will reward them with babies, politician says
- Casey Baseel
Jul 9, 2024
Tells people with few children to put their hands over their hearts and regret their actions.
- Japan
- (aging population • birth rate • COK • crazy • Japan birth rate • Liberal Democratic Party • low birth rate • politicians • politics • shrinking population • society • Takashi Sasakawa • weird)
Japan’s population of people over 100 surpasses 90,000 for first time
- Master Blaster
Sep 20, 2022
A vast majority of those in triple digits are women.
- Japan
- (aging population • centenarians • Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare • respect for the aged day • senior citizens • statistics)
Government study finds seniors active online more likely to feel life is worth living
- Master Blaster
Jun 19, 2022
Are they using the same Internet as me?
- Japan
- (aging population • COK • elderly • internet • senior citizens • seniors • social media • society • survey • technology)
2021 saw the sharpest ever rate of decrease of Japan’s shrinking population, more records broken
- Krista Rogers
Apr 20, 2022
Japan’s decreasing birthrate coupled with an aging population continue to spell out doom and gloom for the future of the country.
- Japan
- (aging population • decreasing birthrate • foreigners in Japan • Living in Japan • population • seniors • society)
Study suggests Japanese curry effective at staving off dementia
- Master Blaster
Jan 11, 2022
A curry a week helps keep the brain at its peak.
- Japan
- (aging population • curry • dementia • food • health • House Foods • science)
Japanese government to give all 18-and-under residents 100,000 yen… here’s why that’s bad news
- Master Blaster
Nov 8, 2021
Big bucks for The Children of Men.
- Japan
- (age gap • aging population • declining birth rate • politics • shrinking population • Stimulus payment)
Births in Japan hit record low in 2020, deaths down for first time in over a decade
- Master Blaster
Feb 24, 2021
2021 might be even less reproductive.
- Japan
- (aging population • birth rate • coronavirus • COVID-19 • death rate • Labor and Welfare • Ministry of Health)
Elderly Wakayama woman arrested for hacking her local supermarket’s self-checkout
- Master Blaster
Dec 12, 2020
Senior turned to computer fraud to get a discount on her eggs.
- Japan
- (aging population • computer fraud • crime • discount stickers • elderly • Kainan • self-checkout • seniors • supermarkets • Wakayama)
Population aging in Japan gets a corona-boost as pregnancies drop by 11 percent this year
- Master Blaster
Oct 26, 2020
COVID-19 takes its toll on Japan in a different way.
- Japan
- (aging population • birth rate • COK • coronavirus • COVID-19 • declining birth rate • pregnancy • society)
One in four Japanese women is now over 70
- Master Blaster
Sep 24, 2020
Not no country for old women.
- Japan
- (aging population • elderly • population • respect for the aged day • senior citizens • statistics)
Three main reasons why fewer and fewer Japanese people are having funerals
- Ingrid Tsai
Sep 14, 2020
Costs and other societal changes have made ceremonies smaller, and certain practices are approaching obsoleteness.
Kumamoto man released on parole after serving longest prison sentence on record in Japan
- Master Blaster
Sep 14, 2020
And what better time in history to get out there and take a big ol’ drink of life.
- Japan
- (aging population • Kumamoto • Kumamoto Prison • longest prison sentence • parole • prison • rehabilitation • senior citizens)
eSports facility for senior citizens set to open in Kobe
- Master Blaster
Jun 27, 2020
Must be over 60 to apply for a membership.
- Japan
- (aging population • business • esports • ISR e-Sports • Kobe • society • video games)
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