{"id":947655,"date":"2026-10-31T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947655\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:00:37","slug":"japan-has-no-time-to-lose-to-avert-a-healthcare-crisis-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947655\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan has &#8216;no time to lose&#8217; to avert a healthcare crisis, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/editor-s-picks\/interview\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Kenichiro Ueno says demographic change is the medical system&#8217;s &#8216;biggest&#8217; challenge<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20261029 Aged Care Home\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A carer talks to residents at an aged care home in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)<\/p>\n<p>AKANE OKUTSU and ANDREW SHARP<\/p>\n<p>October 30, 2026 14:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan&#8217;s health minister warned the country has &#8220;no time to lose&#8221; in heading off a healthcare crisis as the population ages and the pool of workers supporting its universal insurance system shrinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interview Kenichiro Ueno says demographic change is the medical system&#8217;s &#8216;biggest&#8217; challenge A carer talks to residents at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,515062,51536,1631,137,500,941,28542,50029,1463,4215,6618],"class_list":["post-947655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-avert","tag-crisis","tag-has","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-japan","tag-lose","tag-minister","tag-no","tag-says","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}