Archive for May, 2008

Anti-Metabolic Syndrome Boom

“Metabo Taisaku” (Anti-Metabolic syndrome measures) and “Metabo Yobou” (preventions of Metabolic Syndrome) are new buzzwords in diet, exercise, and marketing in Japan.

Anti-Metabolic Syndrome Boom Sparked by MHLW

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May 31 2008 | Health Care and Weekly Articles | No Comments »

A Silent Tsunami Attacks Japan

Earthquakes and Tsunamis are natural disasters that Japan has experienced. However, the global food crisis, or the so called ‘silent tsunami’, is a new type of crisis that the Japanese (especially the younger generations) have never experienced before.
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May 09 2008 | Clothing, Food and Housing and Weekly Articles | No Comments »

Angry Japanese Elderly People

“It is NOT literally the later term care. It means that the government wants us to die sooner!”

This is what elderly people aged 75 or over think of ‘the Later Term Elderly Medical Treatment’: the new Japanese health care system for elderly people, which came into effect in April.
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May 03 2008 | Health Care and Weekly Articles | No Comments »