With the advent of a super-aging society in Japan, how to deal with end-of-life medical treatment and nursing care is an issue that everyone must think about. The Yomiuri Shimbun focused on a practicing doctor in Gifu who promotes home-based treatment and a system in which patients are cared for at home during their final days. The following is the first installment of the series.
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There is a wall mural in the compound of a rundown textile mill located in the Hindu-majority Mahalaxmi area of Mumbai that carries a haunting verse penned down by Urdu poet Muqtida Hasan Nida Fazli in the aftermath of Partition: “Hindu bhi sukoon se hai Musalmaan bhi sukoon se, Insaan pareshaan yahaan bhi hai wahaan bhi” (Hindus are at peace, Muslims are too, it’s the humans who are worried here [India] and there [Pakistan] too).
Clemence Zamora-Cruz was just six years old when she realized she wanted to change her gender.
When baby-faced Huynh Thi Thai Muoi left her home in rural Vietnam to begin a life in South Korea with a man she barely knew, she feared it was a gamble.
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There have been many times in the past two years when Khairul felt he was heading towards a breakdown. Caring for his 78-year-old father who is coping with the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s has been tough, both physically and emotionally.
On a sunny Saturday afternoon, Kim Min-jin, 24, visited a cafe in Samcheong-dong, a quaint neighborhood in Seoul tucked among tourist hot spots, to seek refuge from the bustle of the metropolitan city.
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