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Care Facilities & Nursing Homes in Japan
Japan's care facilities split into categories with very different costs, admission rules, and waiting realities: tokuyo, rouken, dementia group homes, private paid homes, and serviced senior housing. These articles help a family name the right category first, so the comparison that follows is between genuinely comparable places.
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2026-06-04
When to Move a Parent from Home Care to Facility Care in Japan
The signals that home care in Japan is reaching its limit, the guilt around putting a parent in a nursing home, and how to prepare and compare before the move.
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2026-06-03
Nursing Homes and Elderly Care Facilities in Japan: A Guide for Foreign Families
How nursing homes and elderly care facilities in Japan work — facility types, costs, language support, and what foreign residents and overseas families should check before comparing.
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2026-06-04
Putting a Parent in a Nursing Home Against Their Will: What Families in Japan Can Actually Do
The parent is no longer safe at home and refuses every facility. Families searching this phrase are usually exhausted, frightened, and out of ideas, and the truthful answer has two halves: what is genuinely not possible in Japan, and the legitimate routes that exist when safety runs out.
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2026-06-06
When Your Parent Is Unhappy in a Care Home in Japan: Adjustment or Alarm?
Your parent keeps saying take me home. How to tell adjustment from a real problem, raising concerns with a Japanese facility, and when moving out is right.
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2026-06-06
Finding Assisted Living for a Parent in Japan: The Middle Layer Explained
What assisted living maps to in Japan: the sa-ko-ju and residential-home middle layer, who it fits, which documents to read, and the exit conditions to check.
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2026-06-06
Dementia Group Homes in Japan: Small Houses, Long Waits, Real Life
Japan's group homes house people with dementia in units of nine or fewer, living something like household life. Who qualifies, what it costs, and the same-town rule.
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2026-06-06
Tokuyo (Special Nursing Homes) in Japan: Admission, Costs, and the Waiting List
The tokuyo is Japan's public-style nursing home: heavy care, low cost, income reductions, waiting lists. How admission really works and how families play the list.
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2026-06-06
Rouken (Geriatric Health Facilities): Japan's In-Between Care Stop
The rouken exists for the gap between hospital and home: rehabilitation-focused stays with a doctor on staff, reviewed every three months. How families use it well.
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