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Restaurant opens in Japan with all-dementia waitresses, serves up ramen, awareness, and kindness
- Casey Baseel
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Restaurant of Mistaken Orders is upfront about potential problems in order to cultivate future understanding.
- Japan
- (dementia • food • mental health • moving • ramen • Restaurant of Mistaken Orders • restaurants • seniors • society • touching • video)
93-year-old Japanese grannie helps set trap for scam artist half her age
- Casey Baseel
Oct 25, 2026
This woman was the target of a criminal scheme, but she definitely wasn’t going the be the victim of it.
Pachinko machines get new life and become big hit in Japanese assisted care facility
- Master Blaster
Jun 15, 2026
Better living through chrome-plated balls.
- Japan
- (assisted living facility • COK • elderly • Gunma • pachinko • physical disabilities • seniors • society • wellness)
Order a cocktail, support a senior with Shinjuku Day Service Mojito at a handful of businesses
- Krista Rogers
Jun 9, 2026
A new model of urban community collaboration in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho area connects the generations using mint as a bridge.
- Japan
- (bars • cool • elderly • gardening • host clubs • Kabukicho • mint • mojito • moving • restaurants • senior citizens • seniors • shinjuku • Shinjuku Day Service • society • touching)
Study shows that regularly watching sports reduces risk of depression among the elderly
- Master Blaster
Jun 2, 2026
Unless you live in Buffalo.
- Japan
- (depression • health • Ibaraki Prefecture • nursing homes • science • seniors • sports)
G-cha & Ba-cha serves Japanese green tea with a heartwarming backstory in Tokyo
- Oona McGee
Apr 25, 2026
When you support these cool grandparents, you’ll get a lot in return too.
- Japan
- (cafes • cool • G-Cha & Ba-Cha • green tea • ice cream • matcha • matcha ice cream • matcha latte • restaurants • seniors • Shibuya • SNJO • tea • Tokyo)
New cafe in trendy Tokyo neighborhood is staffed by grannies and grandpas with average age of 73
- Casey Baseel
Apr 2, 2026
Ji-chan and ba-chan are waiting for you at G-cha and Ba-cha.
- Japan
- (cafes • COK • cool • green tea • matcha • matcha latte • restaurants • seniors • Shibuya • tea)
Shizuoka senior charged with firearms violation after giving toy guns to the police
- Master Blaster
Nov 27, 2025
No good deed goes unpunished.
- Japan
- (crime • Firearm and Sword Possession Control Law • law • police • seniors • Shizuoka • toy guns • weapons)
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)
100-year-old granny gamer in Japan plays SNES almost every day, sometimes with great-grandkid
- Casey Baseel
Sep 17, 2025
Fukushima resident was well into her senior years before she ever held a controller.
- Japan
- (Bomberman • moving • nintendo • seniors • SNES • Super Famicom • Super NES • Tetris • touching • video games)
Space pilot under attack turns out to be con artist who stole 1 million yen from Sapporo senior
- Master Blaster
Sep 4, 2025
That’ll be the last astronaut she’ll trust.
- Japan
- (astronauts • crime • elderly • electronic money • fraud • Sapporo • seniors • spaceships • special fraud • tokushu sagi)
Aichi senior and former fraud victim arrested for fraud
- Master Blaster
Jul 28, 2025
If you can’t beat ’em…
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’s Rental High School Student Project is more wholesome than it sounds, good for its community
- Casey Baseel
May 19, 2025
Program creates connections and offers help for senior citizens.
- Japan
- (COK • high school • high school students • moving • senior citizens • seniors • society • students • teens • touching • youth)
Osaka Prefecture bans seniors from talking on the phone while using ATMs
- Master Blaster
Mar 26, 2025
Ban is first of its kind in Japan.
- Japan
- (ATM • ban • crime • elderly • ordinances • Osaka • seniors • special fraud • tokushu sagi)
New Japanese maid cafe has strict age limit for maids: No one under 65!
- Casey Baseel
Jan 21, 2025
Shangri-La is attracting customers both older and younger than its senior citizen maids.
- Japan
- (cafes • COK • grannies • maid cafes • maids • restaurants • seniors • weird)
79-year-old Japanese granny who fell in love with Initial D sports car finds perfect new owner【Vid】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 13, 2024
After 25 years, her RX-7 is going home.
- Japan
- (anime • awesome • cars • cool • Initial D • Mazda • moving • RX-7 • seniors • touching • video)
Respect for the Aged Day celebrations very unpopular with Japanese women in survey
- Casey Baseel
Sep 24, 2024
Could Keiro no Hi do with a rebrand?
- Japan
- (COK • Keiro no Hi • respect for the aged day • seniors • society • survey)
89-year-old Japanese man rides bike 600 kilometers to visit his 61-year-old son
- Casey Baseel
Apr 11, 2024
Just a quick little ride from Kobe to Tokyo.
Japan’s oldest man passes away, thought to have been last male born in the Meiji period
- Casey Baseel
Apr 5, 2024
Chiba centenarian was former school teacher.
- Japan
- (COK • Meiji Era • Meiji Period • oldest man • oldest person • seniors • society)
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