03-Jul-17 Japan's Konica Minolta plans to acquire Ambry Genetics of the US, which uses genetic data to screen for cancer, in an acquisition expected to cost JPY100 bn (USD889 mn), the office equipment maker's most expensive acquisition ever. [image: Konica Minolta]

28-Jun-17 Japanese households where people aged 65+ receive long-term care from co-residents in the same age bracket reached a high of 55% in 2016, a 3.5 percentage point increase from 2013. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]

16-Jun-17 25 Japanese companies including Eisai, Takeda and Kitahara International Hospital plan to develop business in emerging economies, leveraging a government partnership to take on Western competitors. The group aims to kick off in Vietnam and Thailand in fiscal 2019. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]

19-Jun-17 Nanosonics has entered into a strategic relationship with Sakura Seiki, one of Japan’s leaders in infection prevention, for the introduction of trophon EPR, a high level disinfection system, into the Japanese market. [image: Nanosonics]

17-Jun-17 Due to a rapidly aging population and fewer children, Japan is experiencing a chronic labor shortage in the nursing care industry and looking to information technology and foreign workers to fill the gap. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]