{"id":574121,"date":"2026-08-04T03:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/574121\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T03:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T03:32:13","slug":"chinas-silver-economy-draws-japan-nursing-care-equipment-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/574121\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s &#8216;silver economy&#8217; draws Japan nursing care equipment retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/retail\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Retail<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Yamashita, Welfan aim for 100 stores by 2030 as eldercare market grows<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260803N shoes for seniors\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Japanese companies Yamashita and\u00a0Welfan look\u00a0to serve China&#8217;s 60-and-older population, which topped 323 million last year\u00a0and is projected to surpass 400 million around 2035. (Photo by Tomoko Wakasugi)<\/p>\n<p>TOMOKO WAKASUGI and SHUNTARO YATSUSHIRO<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SHANGHAI\/SHIZUOKA, Japan &#8212; Two Japanese specialists in nursing care products are expanding to serve China&#8217;s growing elderly population, looking to set up a network of 100 stores in the country as early as 2030 as the market balloons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retail Yamashita, Welfan aim for 100 stores by 2030 as eldercare market grows Japanese companies Yamashita and\u00a0Welfan look\u00a0to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6934,59329,41685,184,11981,163,521,85,46,1437,4984,423,2796],"class_list":["post-574121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-care","tag-chinas","tag-draws","tag-economy","tag-equipment","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-nursing","tag-retailers","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}