SUNAGAWA, Japan >> A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a handful of city officials and hunters. The bear had been ...

Japan has a higher proportion of over-65s than most countries, but is also researching a slew of technologies to stave off the ageing process and increase people’s healthspan. Researchers in Japan are ...

Japan’s loneliness epidemic is intensifying as solo living rises due to urbanization, work pressure, and delayed marriages.

Aging hunters struggle with bear management as Japan's rural areas depopulate Bear attacks hit a record 219 in year through March, with 9,000 bears culled Calls for better hunter recruitment and ...

While traversing the narrow, winding roads outside the Japanese town of Fujikawaguchiko, I stopped by a farm with a view of Mount Fuji, where a few locals were picking fruit. Most were older, and one ...

(CNN) — Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with a third aged over 65, and one in 10 aged over 80, due to a combination of low fertility rates and high life expectancy. This has a direct ...