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Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 28, 2022

Alzheimer’s progression slowed by drug in major trial

The drug slowed cognitive decline in people with early Alzheimer's by 27% over 18 months when compared with a placebo using a common rating scale.
JAPAN / Society / Longform
Sep 5, 2022

Japan’s foreign workers face a new post-COVID landscape

Tighter border controls amid the pandemic have kept technical interns and specified skilled workers from entering Japan. With restrictions now easing, can the government lure them back?
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 13, 2022

Inside Afghanistan's secret schools, where girls defy the Taliban

Since seizing power a year ago, the Taliban have imposed harsh restrictions on girls and women to comply with their austere vision of Islam — effectively squeezing them out of public life.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 27, 2022

Pair of new studies point to natural COVID-19 origin

Answering the question of whether the disease spilled over naturally from animals to humans, or was the result of a lab accident, is viewed as vital to averting the next pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 4, 2022

Mass surveillance in schools won’t prevent mass shootings

Growing use of weapons scanners and cameras might ease parents' worries, but they risk creating dystopian institutions for kids.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 13, 2022

For Tesla, Facebook and others, AI’s flaws are getting harder to ignore

Investors are pouring money into artificial intelligence, despite clear setbacks in self-driving cars, social media and even health care.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 6, 2022

'Jaws' may have outmaneuvered 'The Meg' in ancient shark showdown

The megalodon was one of the largest predators in Earth's history, appearing about 15 million years ago and going extinct about 3.6 million years ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Apr 16, 2022

Coronavirus persisting in feces offers clues to long COVID cause

Patients can harbor the virus in their feces for months after infection, researchers found, stoking concern that its persistence can aggravate the immune system and cause long COVID-19.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 2, 2022

Pregnant women with COVID-19 are unlikely to transmit to babies

Pregnant women who are COVID-19 positive when they give birth rarely transmit the virus to their newborns because it is not an agent that circulates in the bloodstream very frequently.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 19, 2021

Hidden Pentagon records reveal patterns of failure in deadly U.S. airstrikes

A trove of documents lays bare how the U.S. air war has been marked by deeply flawed intelligence, rushed and often imprecise targeting and the deaths of thousands of civilians.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 3, 2021

Six vaccines show promise as boosters, led by mRNA shots

Researchers tested the vaccines in more than 2,800 volunteers 30 and older who had already received two doses of the AstraZeneca or Pfizer shots.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 11, 2021

The cost of coal in South Africa: Dirty skies and sick kids

A study found that more than 5,000 South Africans die annually in the nation's coal belt because the government has failed to fully enforce its own air quality standards.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2021

When routine tasks become a struggle: The effects of long COVID-19

A growing number of “long haulers” in Japan and abroad are experiencing health issues lasting months as a result of COVID-19.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 27, 2021

U.S. men posted the greatest loss in life expectancy from COVID-19

At a loss of 2.2 years, American men saw the biggest decline among 29 nations in a study of the pandemic's impact on longevity.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 9, 2021

How does the delta variant dodge the immune system? Scientists find clues.

The variant, first identified in India, is believed to be about 60% more contagious than alpha, the version of the virus that thrashed Britain and much of Europe earlier this year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 7, 2021

Studies show vaccines are effective against delta variant

Jerusalem, however, announced that the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was seen to be 64% against all COVID-19 infections — down from about 95% in May.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 28, 2021

Pfizer and Moderna vaccines likely produce long-lasting immunity

The findings add to growing evidence that most people immunized with mRNA vaccines may not need boosters, so long as the virus and its variants do not evolve much.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 21, 2021

The latest coronavirus comes from dogs

Scientists have discovered a new canine coronavirus in a child who was hospitalized with pneumonia in Malaysia in 2018. If the virus is confirmed to be a human pathogen, it would be the eighth coronavirus, and the first canine coronavirus, known to cause disease in humans.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 18, 2021

COVID-19 survivors may need just one shot of a two-dose vaccine, studies show

The issue has become all the more urgent since safety concerns have been raised about vaccines from Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 20, 2021

Pfizer’s vaccine works well after one dose and doesn’t always need ultracold storage

A study in Israel showed that the vaccine is robustly effective after the first shot, raising the possibility that regulators in some countries could authorize delaying a second dose.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 18, 2021

Pfizer says South African variant could significantly reduce vaccine protection

A laboratory study suggests that the South African variant of the coronavirus may reduce antibody protection from the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE vaccine by two-thirds, and it is not clear if the shot will be effective against the mutation, the companies said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 4, 2021

AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines to be combined in Oxford trial

The trial will allow researchers to see whether two shots of different vaccines produce better or worse results than two doses of the same product.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 18, 2021

How to (literally) drive the coronavirus away

In a new study, researchers used computer simulations to map how virus-laden airborne particles might flow through the inside of a car.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2020

Schools lauded for COVID-19 response and support

The number of international students enrolled in Japanese universities and vocational schools is on the rise. In May 2019, this number stood at 312,214, up from 164,000 in 2011, and the number of students who chose to work in Japan after graduating has more than doubled since 2013.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 26, 2020

After admitting error, AstraZeneca faces hard questions on vaccine

Scientists said a series of irregularities and omissions in the way AstraZeneca initially disclosed the data have eroded their confidence in the reliability of the results.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2020

Stanford statistical model estimates 700 COVID-19 deaths from Trump rallies

A White House spokesperson dismissed the study as 'a politically driven model based on flawed assumptions and meant to shame Trump supporters.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 10, 2020

A coronavirus vaccine is coming, so who gets it first?

While many people will want to be protected against COVID-19, nations will need to decide who needs prioritizing for vaccination.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2020

Poor countries are running out of time to get rich

New population estimates suggest the window for many big developing nations may be closing faster than they realized.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 8, 2020

Scientists warn of potential wave of coronavirus-linked brain damage

Scientists warned on Wednesday of a potential wave of coronavirus-related brain damage as new evidence suggested COVID-19 can lead to severe neurological complications, including inflammation, psychosis and delirium.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Man arrested over deadly stabbing of woman in Kobe
Masashi Tanimoto, 35, the suspect in the deadly stabbing a 24-year-old woman, is taken into custody in Kobe on Friday night.
Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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