Japanese and American economists assess the present economic status of the elderly in the United States and Japan, and consider the impact of an aging populatio

In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in America from

The population of Asia is growing both larger and older. Demographically the most important continent on the world, Asia's population, currently estimated to be

Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopau

Since the end of World War II, Japan has not sought to remilitarize, and its postwar constitution commits to renouncing aggressive warfare. Yet many inside and