Declining birth rates see business slump heralding introduction of nurses dressed as maids, French-style clinic cafes, brightly-decorated spaces.

Whereas professional nurses care for recuperating patients in Japan, family members are often responsible for the task in her home country. Today, that goal has led Phuong, 25, to earn a Japanese ...

After working for five years in the Methow Valley schools, Vanbianchi was granted a one-year leave to work in Japan as a ...