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DISEASE

WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 28, 2013
Researchers create database of infectious diseases
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have created a digital database of infectious-disease cases dating back 125 years, a treasure trove of information that could help scientists and public health officials better understand how to fight the spread of deadly afflictions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2013
Gene test kits help determine disease risk
Discovering whether you are at risk of developing specific diseases once required going to a hospital for various kinds of time-consuming examinations. Now it can be done with a simple test conducted at home or at a drugstore.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2013
Photo show spans Minamata woes
Some 60 pictures by a freelance photographer currently on display at a gallery in central Tokyo show glimpses of the half-century history of Minamata disease victims.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 8, 2013
'Too fat to fly' young French patient is stranded by British Airways in Chicago
Chicago AFP-JIJI
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2013
Minamata Convention is adopted
A thousand delegates from around 140 nations adopt a treaty in Kumamoto regulating the use and trade of mercury at a global conference organized by the U.N. Environment Program.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2013
Japan team develops compound to prevent Alzheimer's
A team of Japanese researchers has developed a compound to suppress the formation of a protein believed to cause Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published Wednesday in a British science journal.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2013
Minamata mercury treaty finds skeptics
Delegates from about 130 countries will gather Wednesday in the Kumamoto Prefecture cities of Minamata and Kumamoto for a three-day meeting to finalize a new international treaty seeking to ban or greatly limit the use of mercury.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 27, 2013
Report raises fear about toxic algae fed by pollution
They call it the green slime, a toxic ooze of algae that covered lakes and other bodies of water across the United States this summer, closing beaches and killing scores of dolphins, manatees, birds and fish, a report says.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2013
Leprosarium 'prison' dig site opens
The health ministry began work Tuesday at a leprosarium to excavate what was once the only "prison" for rebellious Hansen's disease patients brought in from facilities nationwide, as part of efforts to create a replica of the abusive jail for public viewing next year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 5, 2013
Ailing vets point to Vietnam-era transport planes
Nearly three dozen rugged C-123 transport planes formed the backbone of the U.S. military's campaign to spray Agent Orange over jungles hiding enemy soldiers during the Vietnam War. And many of the troops who served in the conflict have been compensated for diseases associated with their exposure to the toxic defoliant.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 4, 2013
Bacteria-killing chemicals may be masking salmonella
The Agriculture Department is reviewing research that shows new bacteria-killing chemicals used in chicken slaughterhouses may be masking the presence of salmonella and other pathogens that remain on the meat that consumers buy, according to records and interviews.
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2013
Union journals shed light on Minamata disease
Journals detailing the activities of the now-disbanded labor union of Chisso Corp., responsible for the outbreak of the mercury-poisoning disease in Kyushu in the 1950s, have been reprinted to throw fresh light on how its members struggled to support victims of the pollution and confronted their employer over the tragedy.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2013
Blanket tests for mad cow disease will end Sunday
Blanket testing for mad cow disease will end Sunday, 12 years after the program was started in October 2001 after Japan's first case was found, the government said Friday.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WEEK 3
Jun 16, 2013
Insecticides pit trees against bees
"That's where they're going to spray."
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2013
Minamata recognition criteria called outrage
The government must relax its strict criteria for officially recognizing victims of Minamata disease so more people can receive compensation, according to panelists at a symposium on the mercury-poisoning disease.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 14, 2013
French coronavirus case points to possible limited human-to-human spread
A novel coronavirus that has killed more than half of the 38 people it is known to have infected appears capable of limited human-to-human spread, the World Health Organization said Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
May 8, 2013
Spring fever hits workers, students hard after Golden Week
It's now a month since freshmen, finally freed from the stressful life of studying to pass rigorous university entrance exams, began their new lives at their new schools.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 2013
Fukuoka next on Minamata exhibition tour
A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization will hold an exhibition in the city of Fukuoka in May focusing on Minamata disease.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 27, 2013
Gene-sequencing breakthrough may save koalas
Last year the koala, Australia's iconic marsupial, was officially listed as a threatened species in large parts of the country following two decades of devastating population losses.
EDITORIALS
Apr 22, 2013
Wider Minamata relief needed
The Supreme Court upholds the recognition of a Minamata disease victim who showed only a single symptom of the disease before she died 36 years ago at 77.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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