If you’ve been following the tragic farce that is Japan’s official stance on whaling, you’ll know that the arguments made by the country’s Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR) to try and justify the hunting of whales have been soundly rejected. Japan maintains it needs to kill whales as part of ...
Japanese, especially younger ones, are less interested in climate change now than they were nine years ago, a new government ...
A Japanese research team said Friday that it has developed a pretreatment method to prevent tumors from forming when human ...
Cyanide, a toxic chemical, was found in water in the basement of one of the main buildings at the new wholesale market in Tokyo’s Toyosu waterfront area, though at a level marginally above government-set environmental standards, a survey directed by some Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly ...
The first Japanese private hospital opened in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh on this week, with the aim of helping to reduce the flow of Cambodian patients to neighboring countries. The four-story Sunrise Japan Hospital was opened in the presence of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun ...
A record 393,745 in vitro fertilizations were performed in Japan in 2014, resulting in 47,322 births, also an all-time high, a recent tally showed. The results mean one baby was born through IVF treatment for every 21 newborn infants, given that roughly 1 million ...
A study by Japanese researchers presented at a scientific congress Thursday reported a link between long naps and a higher risk of diabetes, though it couldn’t say if daytime sleeping was a symptom or a cause. People who napped more than an hour each ...
An aging population is not the only cause of headache for policymakers trying to keep the nation’s medical costs down — now they have “superexpensive” drugs to deal with. Medical expenses paid to hospitals and clinics across the nation were estimated to have reached ...
Human beings are not the only ones living longer in Japan. Dogs and cats are living an average 13.2 years and 11.9 years respectively, a survey showed Wednesday. This was an increase of 50 percent for dogs and a massive 2.3 times for cats ...
Japan and Cuba are getting ready to announce plans for a medical specialist training center in the Caribbean nation that will feature Japanese technology and equipment, according to informed sources. The move is designed to support the international expansion of Japanese medical technology and ...
The same gravitational force that creates high tides when the moon and sun align may also play a role in triggering major earthquakes, according to a study released Monday. Better understanding of this mechanism could help predict when known faults are more likely to ...
A Vietnamese woman has been confirmed infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus in the first case in Tokyo since the government recognized the disease as Class-4 in February.
A health ministry panel plans to ban false and exaggerated representations of esthetic procedures such as body hair removal and liposuction on the websites of medical institutions, according to informed sources. The panel will consider possible punishment for violating envisioned ban, the sources said. ...
Scientists will start drilling off Japan this month to seek the hottest place where life can survive in a hellish uncharted realm deep below the seabed. The drilling under the Nankai Trough in the Pacific Ocean will be part of a project by 900 ...
Typhoons that slam into Japan have gotten considerably stronger since the 1970s. Is man-made global warming to blame?
