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The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology has expanded the scope of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to include diseases that manifest in adulthood.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 29, 2024

More PGD tests performed after gynecology group widens scope of procedure

More than twice as many applications for screening have been approved after diseases that manifest in adulthood were included in the tests in 2022.
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2024

Japan raises view of economy for first time in 15 months

The Cabinet Office said in its August report that the economy is recovering at a moderate pace, and only parts of it are pausing.
From mid-August through late September, eggplants reach their height of flavor in Japan.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Washoku Essentials
Sep 1, 2024

Japan’s autumn eggplant: Too delicious for your daughter-in-law

In Japan, autumn eggplant has become a shorthand symbol for keeping the most pleasurable things in life to yourself.
Former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Megumi Hirose in the Upper House in April. She stepped down as lawmaker on Aug. 15.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 30, 2024

Ex-LDP lawmaker Hirose indicted over alleged pay fraud

She allegedly reported the wife of her public secretary as her second secretary although the wife did not perform any work in that capacity.
A sketch of Shinichi Mitate, a key suspect in a 2012 murder case, created by police investigators imagining his current appearance
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 30, 2024

Tokyo police release new sketches of 2012 nightclub murder suspect

The police are calling for information on the suspect, saying the 2012 murder should not be forgotten.
Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito (center) attends a session before a prefectural assembly investigative panel on Friday in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 30, 2024

Hyogo governor sidesteps accusations of workplace bullying

In the wake of the deaths of two prefectural officials, Gov. Motohiko Saito told an investigative panel that he may have been a "strict boss."
Bureaucrats had envisioned payments of up to ¥600,000 for women who got married and settled outside of Tokyo, according to media reports.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 30, 2024

Japan scraps idea to woo women out of city with cash

Bureaucrats had envisioned payments of up to ¥600,000 for women who got married and settled outside of Tokyo.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Aug. 14.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 31, 2024

Kishida to skip U.N. General Assembly speech during U.S. visit

Kishida would be the first Japanese prime minister to skip a general debate speech since September 2007.
Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito speaks during a committee meeting in Kobe on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 31, 2024

Embattled Hyogo governor to face no-confidence motion

For its passage, the no-confidence motion needs to be supported by three-quarters or more of assembly members present at a meeting for voting.
Elevated water levels on the Tama River in Kawasaki on Friday after Shanshan dumped torrential rain on wide areas of Japan.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2024

Slow-moving storm Shanshan downgraded to tropical depression

The storm lingered south of Mie Prefecture on Sunday afternoon, unleashing widespread torrential rain across the country.
A shelf for emergency goods is seen almost empty at a hardware store in the city of Shizuoka on Aug. 9.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 1, 2024

20% take no action over Nankai Trough quake warning

The emergency information was lifted on Aug. 15 as there was no particular change in the state of the plate boundaries near where the quake is expected to occur.
Makoto Asai (right) works at his restaurant in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 1, 2024

Reconstruction demand aiding business recovery eight months after Noto quake

There is a long way to go before full-scale postdisaster reconstruction, with many businesses operating for shorter hours or at makeshift facilities.
Two women died near Yokohama Station on Saturday after one of them apparently fell from a building and landed on the other, who was walking below.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2024

Apparent suicide jumper falls onto pedestrian in Yokohama, killing both

According to the police, the two deceased individuals were a 17-year-old from Chiba Prefecture and a 32-year-old corporate worker.
Air conditioners are assembled at a unit of Daikin Industries at a plant in Shiga Prefecture in August 2017.
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2024

Japan air conditioner sales booming amid scorching heat

Households are rushing to buy energy-saving products as replacements to curb soaring electricity bills. Demand in cold regions is also rising.
Tokaido Shinkansen trains were canceled due to heavy rains in Tokyo on Thursday after Typhoon Shanshan, one of Japan's strongest typhoons in decades, dumped torrential rain across southern regions.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2024

Tokaido Shinkansen line back in service on all sections

JR Tokai earlier said it would resume services on all sections from the first trains of Monday. But it moved up the plan as weather improved and safety was confirmed.
Asahikawa Mayor Hirosuke Imazu (left) receives the final version of a reinvestigation report on a schoolgirl suicide case from education critic Naoki Ogi in Asahikawa on Sunday.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 2, 2024

Reinvestigation report on death of bullied Hokkaido girl submitted

The submission of the final version had been delayed due to the need to take measures to prevent its content from being leaked.
Koji Yamaguchi, president of Ox Engineering, says Paralympic athletes using the firm's wheelchairs won more than 140 medals in summer and winter games combined between 1996 and 2021.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2024

Wheelchair-maker in Japan empowering Paralympic athletes

Founded in 1988 as a developer of motorcycle engines and parts, the company switched to the wheelchair business in 1995.
Japanese firms' capital expenditure rose 1.9% in the three months through June from the previous quarter.
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2024

Japan’s firms lift outlays in sign of modest domestic demand

Capital expenditure on goods excluding software rose 1.9% in the three months through June from the previous quarter.
Keisuke Yoshida, 42, is accused of killing his wife by poisoning her with methanol at their home in Tokyo’s Ota Ward between Jan. 14 and 15 in 2022.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 2, 2024

Ex-employee of Daiichi Sankyo denies poisoning his wife with methanol

Keisuke Yoshida, formerly a senior researcher at the pharmaceutical firm, said he had never thought of killing his wife.
Therapy dogs are brought in for correctional education at the Kakogawa Gakuen juvenile correctional facility in Hyogo Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Sep 3, 2024

Novel dog training program aids rehab at juvenile correctional facility

An official involved in the program highlighted its importance, saying, 'Interaction with animals plays a valuable role in the rehabilitation of juveniles.'
The government's new proposed plan for supporting dementia calls for a society in which people with dementia can continue to live as they like in places where they are used to living.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2024

Japanese government to promote 'new perception of dementia'

The number of dementia cases is rising due to the rapid graying of the Japanese population.
Japan's new prime minister may want to consider setting a budget surplus-to-gross domestic product target to ensure that the nation stays in the black, government adviser Takero Doi has said.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 3, 2024

Japan’s new prime minister must set fresh fiscal target, adviser says

Setting such a target would help bring down Japan’s public debt-to-GDP ratio, government adviser Takero Doi has said in an interview.
A colony of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells established from fibroblasts. Kyoto University Hospital is looking to develop a treatment for Type 1 diabetes using iPS cells.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 3, 2024

Kyoto University Hospital seeks to treat Type 1 diabetes using iPS cells

Researchers will begin clinical trial of a treatment as early as next year, which they hope will become available in the 2030s.
One in three workers say they want to return to companies they have worked for before, a survey has found.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2024

Many job changers in Japan consider returning to former employer, survey says

Reasons varied from shifts in personal circumstances after they quit their jobs, to a newfound appreciation for their former workplace after leaving.
A mongoose captured in Amami-Oshima, Kagoshima Prefecture
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2024

Japan declares eradication of mongoose on World Heritage island

This is one of the world's largest-scale cases in which long-settled nonnative mongooses have been eradicated, according to the Environment Ministry.
Maestro Seiji Ozawa (center) lays flowers at the cenotaph for atomic bomb victims at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in October 2005.
JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Sep 9, 2024

Maestro Seiji Ozawa’s prayer for peace lives on in Hiroshima

His musical roots — and passion — can be traced back to the city where the first atomic bomb was detonated.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi announces his candidacy in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 3, 2024

Yoshimasa Hayashi announces candidacy in LDP leadership race

The chief cabinet secretary has proposed a new independent agency to regulate the financing of electoral campaigns.
Nippon Steel headquarters in Tokyo. Nippon Steel said last month that it would make an additional investment of about $1.3 billion in U.S. Steel following the takeover.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2024

Nippon Steel defends its U.S. Steel bid after Harris' opposition

Nippon Steel released a statement Tuesday arguing that the Japanese firm's planned acquisition of U.S. Steel would benefit the United States.
The Aichi Prefectural Police headquarters in Nagoya
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 4, 2024

Three Nagoya men arrested over series of burglaries

Numerous burglaries have been reported within Aichi Prefecture since April 2022, with the police suspecting the same three men were involved.
U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 4, 2024

U.S. Steel to remain American-led, Nippon Steel says

The Japanese firm said post-acquisition the majority of U.S. Steel's board of directors and all members of core senior management would be U.S. citizens.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
What would a ‘backup capital’ look like for Japan?
The Japan Innovation Party has long sought to get Osaka designated as Japan's backup capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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