Report: Event on Ageing and Care in Japanese Society On Wednesday 5 June, we were proud to invite Dr Jason Danely, Reader of Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University and Chair of the Healthy Ageing & Care Research Innovation and Knowledge Exchange Network to join us for our event, "In the Shadows of Gratitude: Ageing and Care in Japanese Society", as part of our Japan Foundation seminar series held at Japan House London. The event started with a welcome by Mr Shin-ichi TANAKA, director of the Japan Foundation London, followed by an introductory talk by Dr Danely, who gave us some background on the current situation in Japan's ageing society, where growing numbers of the elderly are looking after one another in the spaces of their own homes...
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