by carterjmrn | Jan 1, 2022 | Age-Tech Japan
“Big in Japan – Perspective from 35 Years of Living in an Aging Country” 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...
by carterjmrn | Dec 9, 2021 | Ageing and Generations, Aging Technology
With right at 30% of its population aged over 65, Japan represents the largest global market for ageing-related technologies. And with the proportion of over 65s headed to around 40% by 2050, the addressable market is only set to expand. Recent surveys conducted by...
by carterjmrn | Sep 28, 2021 | Ageing and Generations, Changing World of Work
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.” Four foundational life components come together to create ikigai: passion, vocation, profession,...
by carterjmrn | Dec 22, 2020 | Ageing and Generations, Carter Group Viewpoints, Covid-19 Related Articles
Back in 2018 I published an article on LinkedIn titled, ‘Young and Careful: Japan’s Strangely Conservative Youth’. At the time of writing that piece it had, for some time, seemed to me that young people in Japan were...
by carterjmrn | Feb 28, 2020 | Carter Group Viewpoints
by CarterJMRN 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...
by carterjmrn | Aug 15, 2019 | Carter Group Viewpoints
You can knock on the doors of millions of residences in Japan 24/7—especially out in the countryside—and get no answer. That’s because these places are akiya, a term usually translated as “abandoned houses” but which also applies to properties that are simply...
by carterjmrn | Apr 5, 2010 | Aging Technology
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. Several large players last year announced their intentions to...
