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HEALTH

ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 29, 2014
China reports new human case of H7N9 bird flu
China confirmed a new human infection of the deadly H7N9 avian influenza virus, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said, the first case this winter in the southern province of Guangdong.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2014
Delay of tax hike will hit elderly hardest: experts
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's decision to postpone the second stage of the sales tax hike is likely to wreak havoc on health care provisions for the elderly.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 27, 2014
U.S. EPA seeks tighter ozone standards to cut pollution
The Obama administration on Wednesday proposed stricter curbs on ground-level ozone, a pollutant linked to several serious health conditions. Industry groups said the move would place a heavy burden on the U.S. economy.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 27, 2014
First gene therapy drug sets million-euro price record
The Western world's first gene-therapy drug is set to go on sale in Germany with a price of €1.1 million ($1.4 million), a new record for a medicine to treat a rare disease.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 24, 2014
Thai king meets PM, ministers easing health concerns
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej met the country's prime minister and two other ministers on Sunday, helping to ease concern over his health after he was admitted to a hospital last month.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 22, 2014
Newtown massacre shooter indulged dark obsessions online: report
By the time Adam Lanza massacred 26 children and adults at a Connecticut school two years ago, he was living in nearly complete isolation, communicating with no one except an online network of people obsessed with mass murder, a report released on Friday said.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 21, 2014
Most heavy drinkers are not alcoholics, U.S. study finds
Contrary to popular opinion, only 10 percent of U.S. adults who drink too much are alcoholics, according to a federal study released on Thursday, a finding that could have implications for reducing consumption of beer, wine and liquor.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 21, 2014
AIDS drugs show promise in treating common eye disease of elderly
A class of drugs used for three decades by people infected with the virus that causes AIDS may be effective in treating a leading cause of blindness among the elderly.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 21, 2014
Second bird flu outbreak found on Dutch farm
Dutch officials have detected a second outbreak of bird flu on a southern Netherlands farm, officials said, and they are awaiting test results to see whether the strain was of a highly contagious variety discovered earlier this week.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 21, 2014
New 'back boost' vaccine technique pre-empts flu virus mutation
An international team of scientists has found it may be possible to make seasonal flu vaccines more effective by using an idea known as "back boost" and pre-empting flu virus evolution.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 19, 2014
S&P 500, Dow hit records, boosted by health care shares
U.S. stocks climbed in afternoon trading on Tuesday, lifting both the Dow and S&P 500 to record highs as health care shares extended this week's gains.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 17, 2014
Bird flu at British farm may be linked to Dutch, German cases
Bird flu found on a duck farm in northern England might be linked to a highly contagious strain of the disease found this weekend at a poultry farm in the central Netherlands, as well as a case early this month in Germany.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 14, 2014
Mali traces over 200 contacts in second Ebola wave
Mali is tracing at least 200 contacts linked to confirmed and probable Ebola victims as it seeks to control its second Ebola outbreak, health officials said Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 13, 2014
Women face hasty surgery, dirty clinics in Indian sterilization drive
The scene in the gloomy room where 83 women were sterilized last weekend is repeated routinely at makeshift contraception clinics across India: bloodstained sheets that aren't changed between patients, and hasty two-minute surgeries.
EDITORIALS
Nov 12, 2014
Improving dementia care
The government must make greater efforts to to enable people with dementia to live as normally as possible for as long as possible.
Britain responds after Expo 2025 afternoon tea brews outrage
The café space at the Osaka Expo's British pavilion
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Inflation and high hotel prices curtail Golden Week travels
Travelers in front of a flight information panel in a departure hall at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on April 26
Police arrest man after body of ex-girlfriend found under his home
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Japan ranks 66th in press freedom, lowest among G7
Japan climbed four positions from last year, with Reporters Without Borders noting that "the principles of media freedom and pluralism are generally respected" in the country.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.
Want to see the future at the Osaka Expo? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.

Podcast

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

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
By Hanako Lowry

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