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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
In 1987, Adrian Raine, who describes himself as a neurocriminologist, moved from Britain to America. His emigration was prompted by two things. The first was a sense of banging his head against a wall. Raine, who grew up in England, and is now a professor at the University of Philadelphia, ...
Men who eat large amounts of beef or pork daily face a heightened risk of diabetes, a team of researchers ...
Nine women have registered with Japan’s first “ovum bank” to donate their eggs to help infertile women, paving the way ...
The new bird flu outbreak in China hasn't spread to Japan yet, but Tokyo must stay on guard, the head of the influenza countermeasures panel warns.
This month, the Vermillion bird of the South — which is currently flying 550 km above Earth — meets an astronomical swan some 6,000 light-years away. In Eastern mythology, the Vermillion bird of the South represents fire — it is a spirit creature renowned ...
A Japanese research team says a crab-eating monkey has successfully given birth after having its uterus removed and reimplanted, in the first case of its kind in the world.
The science ministry has embarked on a quest to develop a next-generation supercomputer by 2020 that will be 100 times faster than K, Japan’s fastest supercomputer, ministry officials said. The Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry will seek funding to design the new ...
A large mass of granite has been found on the seabed off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, suggesting a continent may have existed in the Atlantic Ocean, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the Brazilian government announce.
A Japanese research team has found a more efficient way to differentiate human induced pluripotent stem cells into mature myocytes, or muscle cells, it said in a paper posted on the U.S. Plos One online science journal Wednesday. The team has demonstrated that inducible ...
A group of Japanese researchers said Tuesday that they have succeeded in creating a cell capable of helping to increase red blood cell count using induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells. The cell produces erythropoietin, a hormone that facilitates production of red blood cells, ...
If dragonflies are the insects of Japan’s day, then the mysterious, magical fireflies are its bugs of the night. About now, firefly grubs will be emerging from rivers around the country. They’ve been living in the mud in larval form for the last year, ...
The risk of river flooding might grow fourfold by the end of the century if global warming reaches its maximum estimate, according to a government report summarizing a study on the impact of climate change on Japan. Tide-based risks also may climb because rising ...
Japanese scientists are set to launch a specially developed telescope into space next year to look for signs of the elusive substance known as dark matter. The hunt for dark matter, which is believed to make up about a quarter of the universe, took ...
Scientists in Kyoto say they have found a way to "read" people's dreams using MRI scanners to unlock some of the secrets of the unconscious mind.
Masazumi Harada was not only a doctor but also a humble individual, who offered sacrificial support to sufferers of Minamata mercury-poisoning disease and learned from them. An exhibition at Kumamoto Gakuen University’s Open Research Center for Minamata Studies in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, shows his ...