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Explore English-language articles written by or featuring JCIE staff and senior fellows, coverage of JCIE events, and stories written by JCIE’s US-Japan Journalism Fellows. For Japanese language articles click here.
Japan Elderly Care Services Drawing Interest from Thailand, Other Asian Nations
Etsuo Kono | Yomiuri Shimbun
February 8, 2024
“In early November, three older people with dementia were cleaning a park in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. A group of nine visitors from Thailand, Vietnam, China and Singapore observed the way the th…
Japan as an “Immigrant Nation”: The Need for Frankness on Recent Policy Changes
Toshihiro Menju | nippon.com
September 21, 2023
“At a recent event…, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio told attendees that, ‘we must imagine a society in which we can live together with foreigners’ in light of Japan’s demographic decline. The prime mini…
Over 23,000 Complaints Received from Foreign Technical Trainees in Japan
| NHK-World-Japan
December 12, 2022
“An organization that supports foreign technical trainees in Japan says it received more than 23,000 complaints in fiscal 2021. This comes amid reports about various problems, such as trainees not bei…
JCIE/Japan's Momoko Abe Interviewed on Ageing by NHK
| NHK World Japan
June 30, 2023
On the sidelines of the 16th International Federation on Ageing Conference in Bangkok, JCIE/Japan’s Momoko Abe discusses the importance of information sharing on innovative responses to aging.
The US and Japan as G7 Champions of Health and Democracy
Kazuyo Kato | The Diplomat
May 11, 2023
In this op-ed published in the Diplomat ahead of the 2023 G7 Summit in Hiroshima, JCIE/USA Executive Director Kazuyo Kato and Ambassador (ret.) Mark Lagon, Chief Policy Officer at Friends of the Globa…
JCIE's Hiroshima G7 Global Health Task Force Publishes Comments in the Lancet Ahead of G7 Meetings
| The Lancet
April 4, 2023
The Lancet published a comment from the Hiroshima G7 Global Health Task Force, outlining the Task Force’s recommendations for tackling some of the main challenges in global health: advancing the resil…