Japan offers ¥500 billion to help solve water issues in Asia-Pacific
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida indicated his country's eagerness to support the development of high-quality infrastructure using the country's cutting-edge technologies.
At the outset of the ceremony, at which attendance was limited for the third straight year due to the pandemic, 30 people including bereaved families observed a moment of silence.
Toyota supplier Denso joins TSMC in building new chip factory in Japan
The Toyota group company will invest ¥40 billion ($350 million) in a TSMC-Sony joint venture set up for a TSMC chip plant in Kumamoto Prefecture.
Japanese government stays silent on legality of confidential births
Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto has asked whether submitting a birth notification without the mother's name would violate the Penal Code.
Method to identify origin of asari clams with isotopes developed in Japan
The method measures the levels of a neodymium isotope in the shells of the creatures to help determine where they came from.
Many businesses have been importing asari clams from foreign countries to raise them locally in Kumamoto briefly before shipping them off as Kumamoto-grown.
In Japan first, Kumamoto baby's birth to be reported without mother's name
The woman, who had been unable to tell her family about her pregnancy, gave birth under a confidentiality agreement.
Kyushu drives changes to school rules to ensure freedoms are respected
A substantial number of prefecture-run schools in the region are only now lifting restrictions on the color of students' underwear.
All of Japan's 47 prefectures sent officials to disaster areas, survey shows
Dispatched officials have engaged in such support services as supplying water, managing evacuation centers, risk assessment of affected buildings and issuing disaster certificates.
Teenager the first to use hospital's 'confidential birth' system
The hospital decided to introduce anonymous births amid a rising number of women choosing to deliver without medical assistance to keep their pregnancies a secret.
Jikei Hospital grapples with how to protect women seeking confidential births
A hospital in Kumamoto wants babies to be born safely while protecting their mother's privacy — but legal and administrative obstacles put it at risk.
At a Kyushu hospital, a wavering mother decides to keep her baby after hearing about a foster child
Still a minor and in her ninth month of pregnancy, she at first wouldn't reveal her full identity and said she wanted her information to be kept from the baby as well.
