Japanese scientists launch a sperm bank for endangered animals that uses freeze-drying technology they hope could one day help humans re-create animal populations on other planets.

An Okayama University team’s poll of 557 pregnant women has found that 5.7 percent would have an abortion if an initial blood test indicated the likelihood of fetal chromosomal abnormalities. The survey was the first large-scale study on pregnant women in Japan after a ...

Experts suspect a computer programming error and lax preliminary checks were among the reasons Japan’s newest rocket didn’t get off the ground Tuesday. The computer controlling the launch of the three-stage Epsilon rocket at the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture detected an abnormality ...

Kanebo Cosmetics Inc. said Friday it has found another 1,641 people suffering from blotches as a result of its skin-whitening cosmetics. The new cases, discovered during door-to-door visits to consumers complaining of patchy skin whitening after using the products, brings the total number of ...

Reported cases in Japan of hand, foot and mouth disease, a viral illness commonly found in children, have topped 130,000 since the beginning of the year, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Tuesday. According to the institute, 133,802 people had been sickened as ...

The health ministry has instructed Novartis Pharma K.K. to state in an attached note for its Diovan blood pressure-lowering drug that the medicine may cause serious skin disorders. Diovan, whose generic name is valsartan, has been cited in a recent suspected case of clinical ...