Young athletes are being recruited to plug a staff shortage in Japan’s nursing homes. The results are reshaping elder care.

The resignation agency industry is what happens when staying becomes harder than leaving. Japan got there first. The rest of ...

Japan’s government is actively pushing robots into jobs that workers increasingly refuse to do, from lifting elderly patients in nursing homes to running repetitive tasks at rural factories. The ...

In Kyoto, an unusual crop has appeared in the hills along the western fringe of the ancient capital. Indigo plants are being cultivated here for the first time in centuries in a revival of a ...

The local government in Japan’s Mie prefecture is preparing to introduce the country’s first local ordinance that penalises abusive behaviour by customers toward workers. The proposed law aims to ...

TOKYO -- A new survey shows that more than 90% of Japanese companies have had workers come back early from jobs in other countries. The main reason is not language, but problems with local culture.

Residents are protesting a planned housing facility for foreign workers, exposing the conflict between Japan’s need for labor and anxieties over immigration. The economy of Kutchan, a town on Japan’s ...