China learns nursing care from Japan as it, too, grows older

Beijing hopes to gain public support by improving the lives of the elderly

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An elderly care facility in Japan: The Chinese government is eager to learn from Japan's experience in dealing with an aging society. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)

TSUKASA HADANO, Nikkei staff writer

BEIJING -- China is preparing to send students to Japan to learn how the country handles nursing care for the elderly as its own population ages rapidly.

In early November, 100 students aged around 20 gathered at a hotel in Jinan, about 400 km south of Beijing, for a ceremony marking the opening of a course at the Shandong Institute of Commerce and Technology to train nursing-care professionals in Japan.

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