Vietnamese caregivers working in Japanese hospitals have been rated the "best" among Asian trainees, according to an industry insider. Takeshima Tenmi, chairman of Osaka Medical Care Association, ...

The government now considers dementia one of its most urgent policy challenges. The Health Ministry projects that ...

The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Japan and the Philippines was completed in 2006. This agreement allowed the two countries to exchange a total of 12,000 caregivers in the next two ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Speaking in Japanese and bowing, 24-year-old Siti Maesaroh offers a tray with a mug and two bowls to a fellow student pretending to be an elderly person, before asking him if he ...

I hope this letter will be read by the concerned parties — the health ministry of Japan and representatives of the government. I was a trainee from the first batch under the economic partnership ...

Junior colleges and vocational schools in Japan that train caregivers are increasingly accepting foreign students amid Japan’s declining birthrate and little interest in the field among Japanese. This ...

Humanitude, a caregiving method developed in France that emphasizes eye contact, touch and verbal communication to convey respect for the patient as a human being, is gaining attention in Japan for ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Agartala, March 15 (IANS) For the first time, nine youths from Tripura have got jobs in Japan as nursing caregivers and 60 more candidates would go to the East Asian country in the next ...

Japan's health ministry estimates that one in five people over the age of 65 will have dementia by 2025. Currently around 2.7 million people suffer from dementia in Japan, but that number is set to ...