TOKYO -- Japan's Longlife Holding is expanding its elder care goods business to China, with plans to start selling disposable adult diapers first and later beds and other products.

Wearing adult diapers just got a whole lot cooler — a Japanese company called Super Faith has developed a miraculous system that turns used diapers into a clean fuel source in about 24 hours. The ...

STORY: Call it a sign of the times. In Japan, adult diapers are starting to outsell those for babies. That as birthrates there plummet and society ages. Around 29% of the country’s population is now ...

One of Japan’s largest manufacturers of disposable nappies says it will halt output of products designed for babies and shift entirely to those made for the elderly in the latest sign of the nation’s ...

That’s how the Tokyo-based company Oji Holdings described the Japanese adult diaper economy last week. The company announced in a press release that it would be terminating its “domestic disposal ...

How regression taught me to live a grown-up life. By Dani Blum “You’re going to molt like a baby snake,” one of the doctors said. He was right: I shed fragments of myself all over my studio apartment.