In his Olympic year, Oscar Pistorius steadily became an avid firearms collector, joining a gun-collecting club and purchasing a collection of firearms that included a .500 Magnum pistol and a civilian version of a military assault rifle.
When it comes to gender equality, Japan has never failed to disappoint.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
The second-oldest meteorite in Japan, the Minamino, is housed in Yobitsugi Shrine in Nagoya. The town of Hoshizaki has seen meteorites fall three times in the surrounding area, and given its location near the coast of Aichi Prefecture, it is known as “the cape of stars.” The town is under ...
Researchers at Hokkaido University and Juntendo University develop a new therapy to suppress the rejection of liver transplants without the ...
A global team of experts says residents zapped by the most radiation from the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns face an ...
The government-backed Riken scientific research institute said Thursday it has applied for government permission to conduct clinical research using induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, to regenerate retinas. If the ministry accepts Riken’s plan, it would be the world’s first clinical research ...
A U.S. foundation sponsored by top U.S. business executives said Wednesday it has selected 11 researchers, including Japanese stem cell researcher and Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka, as inaugural winners of the newly launched Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their past achievements in the ...
Using genetically modified pigs that can't grow their own pancreases, Japanese scientists succeed in growing the gland in the pigs by injecting normal pig embryonic cells into their embryos.
Officials of the Environment Ministry and about 130 municipalities meet in Tokyo to boost cooperation on measures against possible high concentrations of toxic smog spreading to Japan from China.
Officials of the Environment Ministry and about 130 municipalities meet in Tokyo to boost cooperation on measures against possible high concentrations of toxic smog spreading to Japan from China.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to send a space telescope into orbit around the Earth to observe Venus, Mars and Jupiter to unlock the secrets of our own planet’s atmosphere.
It’s the most celebrated and notorious fish in the world, certainly in culinary circles. Now the puffer fish — one of Japan’s most enigmatic creatures — meets some of biology’s deepest questions: Why did sex evolve? Why are there two sexes? Why is the ...
Some squid can fly more than 30 meters through the air at speeds faster than sprint king Usain Bolt if they need to escape predators, Hokkaido University researchers say.
The fresh rubella outbreak spreading quickly nationwide poses the greatest threat to fetuses, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases says.
A smoker’s craving to light up can be tamed by carefully targeted magnetic fields applied to the brain, a Japanese-Canadian team has found. Scientists managed to zoom in on the exact spots that drive cravings for nicotine, noting that a mental connection made when ...
The 2013 Japan Prize will be awarded to three U.S. researchers for their scientific contributions in the fields of semiconductor manufacturing and ecology. The joint winners in the field of materials and production are C. Grant Willson, a chemistry professor at the University of ...
In Japan, school lunch means a regular meal, not one that harms your health. The food is grown locally and almost never frozen. There’s no mystery behind the meat. From time to time, parents even call up with an unusual question: Can they get ...
