A Japanese man who is suspected to have instructed a recent series of robberies across Japan had his girlfriend repeatedly bring defrauded money four years ago from Japan to the Philippines, where he is based. (NHK)

A Japanese court is ordering the government to compensate two people who were forcibly sterilized because of a disability. This is the third such ruling in under a year. (NHK)

A Japanese court on Wednesday found three former utility company executives not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and the subsequent deaths of more than 40 elderly residents during their forced evacuation. (staradvertiser.com)

Seniors living in poverty or working to supplement their income are on the rise as Japan’s public pension system cracks under a super aging society. (The Diplomat)

How Japan is using tech to transform elderly care? (CNA Insider)

Japanese government statistics show the percentage of people who died at home rose over the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. (NHK)

Japan looks set to face a shortage of 960,000 medical and welfare service workers in 2040, when the country’s elderly population is expected to peak, according to an annual welfare ministry report released Friday. (Japan Times)

Japan's health ministry says coronavirus vaccinations that target Omicron variants will start next week. The vaccines will be categorized as public inoculations so people can get them for free. (NHK)

Japan has approved the use of coronavirus vaccines that target Omicron for people aged 12 or older who have received their first two shots. (NHK)

Japan's health ministry has decided to start coronavirus vaccinations targeting the Omicron variant for the elderly and medical workers as early as mid-September. (NHK)

Japan plans to allow up to 50,000 people to enter the country each day, from the current 20,000, Nikkei has learned, as the government looks to end COVID testing requirements for vaccinated travelers. (Nikkei)

Powdered matcha green tea can improve the quality of sleep and partially enhance cognitive function, results from a Japanese clinical trial suggest. (Nikkei)

Officials in the southwestern Japanese city of Yamaguchi have formed a special unit, armed with tranquilizer guns to hunt down monkeys, after at least 42 reported attacks on people by the animal since July 8. (voanews.com)

A Japanese health ministry panel has awarded for the first time a lump sum compensation payment to the family of an elderly woman who died after suffering an allergic response and sudden heart attack related to a COVID-19 vaccination. (Japan Today)

Japan's daily COVID-19 cases topped 200,000 for the first time, according to a tally of new cases reported Saturday, marking the fourth straight day of a record count during the seventh wave of coronavirus infections. (Nikkei)

Japanese insurer Tokio Marine is now selling a policy that will cover costs incurred when elderly people die alone with no relatives located. (insurancebusinessmag.com)

Okinawa Prefecture in southwestern Japan has decided to call on residents to follow restrictive measures amid a resurgence of coronavirus infections there. (NHK)

Japan's government decided Friday to expand the scope of people who can receive a fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot to all medical personnel and workers at elderly care facilities as the country faces its seventh wave of coronavirus infections and the nationwide daily count climbs closer to a record high. (Japan Today)

Ubasute is the mythical practice of senicide in Japan, whereby an infirm or elderly relative was carried to a mountain, or some other remote, desolate place, and left there to die. (Linfamy)

Japan's health ministry has asked municipalities nationwide to make sure that hospitals have enough beds and testing capacities amid the recent rise in coronavirus cases nationwide. (NHK)

Two weeks ago, investigators arrested Mitsunobu Hino, a 72-year-old resident of Matsudo, on charges of property damage after Hino was seen on security camera footage carrying a wara ningyo at a shrine shortly before one of the dolls was found nailed to the ground’s sacred tree. (soranews24.com)

Staff at a hospital in Tokushima Prefecture, western Japan, are unable to access electronic medical records after the hospital became the target of a ransomware attack. (NHK)

Tokyo prosecutors have indicted a 22-year-old man without arrest for posting slanderous comments about the family of the victims of a car accident. (NHK)

For Ridge Alkonis, a U.S. Navy lieutenant living in Japan, a springtime trip with his wife and three children to Mount Fuji was intended as fun and leisurely family time before an expected deployment. (8News)

Japanese director Hayakawa Chie's film PLAN 75 has received a Special Mention by the jury for the Camera d'Or, an award for debut feature films, at the Cannes Film Festival. (NHK)