Preventive care in Japan aims to reduce the number of elderly people who need nursing care and insurance support by improving the quality of elderly life through encouraging them in making efforts to maintain their health and physical mobility, and participate in social and community activities. This would thereby relieves the financial burden on the government and also reduce the burden faced by the younger generation who support the elderly.

Kadokawa Care Prevention Center is a country’s leading example of preventive care that provides special facilities and unique programs specialized in improving and maintaining the health condition and physical mobility of the elderly. The center was established by Toyama City through unique physical and financial arrangements. It received various monetary and facility donations from the citizens, converting old public facilities due to the shrinking and aging demographic context, and collaborating with private sector in the operation.