Tokyo DispatchJapan, in EnglishA union says decades of gendered work patterns leave most Japanese women drawing under ¥100,000 a month, and an 84-year-old who worked 35 years told a Tokyo press conference she cannot keep up with prices.
A government push to certify housework support workers has care managers asking whether growth strategy is quietly replacing a system built to socialize care.
Tadao Okada began acting at 88 and kept performing into his final years. A film by a Setouchi broadcaster's director follows him and the troupe that cast him.
Japan's only wrestler to pin both Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki says he wants to take care of himself, as a documentary follows his walking rehabilitation in a seniors' residence.
The first meeting of a 14-member expert council set the goal of a society that keeps both growth and security even as the population shrinks, with the strategy due by the end of the year.
A flat monthly fee for home-visit nursing in depopulated mountain areas would count gasoline, vehicle upkeep and travel time, the ministry told a welfare panel. Providers could still choose the current per-visit rate.
The government opened a 14-member advisory council on Friday to draft a year-end population strategy, with a former internal affairs minister as chair.
Heating fuel is up ¥35 a liter from last winter, and some households are choosing between warmth and food.
