Tag Aging society

Age-Tech Japan

Age Tech Japan Newsletter: January 2022

Debbie Howard, Chairman of The Carter Group/Japan Market Resource Network, was recently interviewed by leading agetech innovator Keren Etkin (author of the recently released book “The AgeTech Revolution”) and founder of The Gerontechnologist, about agetech in Japan.

Ageing and Generations, Aging Technology

Kobe City’s Age-Tech Eldercare Technology Implementation and Promotion Program Creates Win-Win for Both Society and International Age-Tech Companies

With right at 30% of its population aged over 65, Japan represents the largest global market for ageing-related technologies.

Ageing and Generations, Changing World of Work

All about Ikigai … What It Is, How It Works with Longevity, and a Local Government Example

In Japanese culture, it is said that each person has an ikigai (生き甲斐, pronounced ee-kee-guy), or “path to life fulfilment” or “purpose for being.”

Carter Group Viewpoints

The business of dying in Japan

One thing is certain for all of us, as a rather morbid saying goes. But alas, it is true and therefore it doesn’t come as a surprise that death and the business of dying are a large industry in Japan, with customers guaranteed in one of the most aged societies in the world.

Carter Group Viewpoints

Yay, Free Houses in Japan! Not So Fast, Friend.

You can knock on the doors of millions of residences in Japan 24/7—especially out in the countryside—and get no answer.

Aging Technology

Drug distribution channels bound for change as part of aging society phenomenon

Japan may be a long way from the 24-hour, drive-through pharmacies that one sees in the U.S., but a recent flurry of activity to create “new types of drugstores” shows that innovation is alive and well.