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AI-Assisted Preventive Care in Japan: How Data Is Shifting Healthcare from Treatment to Prediction

Japan is running a live experiment the rest of the world is not ready for yet. This is no longer an aging society. It is a super aged one. Hospitals feel it. Families feel it. Government budgets feel it. Japan’s aged population has almost reached the proportion of 30%, as nearly 29.3% of the total population or around 36.24 million individuals who would be 65 years or older by the end of the first half of 2025 are included in this category. No theory. No projection. This is the present. The problem is simple and brutal. The healthcare system was built for treatment, not prevention. It waits for people to fall sick, then reacts. That model breaks when the workforce shrinks and care demand keeps rising. The math stops working.…