After losing World War II, Japan decided to pursue pacifism under a war-renouncing Constitution, and its scientists vowed to avoid military research in repentance for cooperating with the military. But this long-held position is being complicated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy of luring universities ...
Four top scientific institutions have applied for money under the Defense Ministry’s fiscal 2017 security technology research promotion financing program.
Last month a bill aimed at facilitating medical research through the use of patient records stored at medical institutions cleared the Diet. The law, commonly called Jisedai Iryo-kiban Ho — roughly translated as the next-generation medical infrastructure law — will allow medical big data to ...
Elderly men should eat their meals with family and friends, or they may not live as long as they wish. This seems to be the bottom line of a study by a group of Japanese researchers. The study, conducted by researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental ...
Remembering the lessons of World War II, the nation’s most influential science group takes an official stance against conducting military research.
Female cockroaches living in groups with other females are more likely to have their unfertilized eggs hatch, a research team at Hokkaido University has found, providing a possible explanation for the reason the insect has managed to survive for hundreds of millions of years. When ...
A Nagoya-based venture has started selling a reagent that allows researchers to significantly reduce the time needed to synthesize proteins, supporting the development of medicines including one that can control the growth of cancer cells. The reagent sold by NUProtein Co., which originated from Nagoya ...
British and Japanese scientists are conducting new research seeking to discover how Japan's marine ecosystem may be affected by global warming. They are studying the potential side effects of rising acidity in Japan's seas caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Previous studies ...
An Osaka-based medical facility is looking to investigate whether laughter is indeed the best medicine, and whether it can be effective in treating cancer. Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases said Wednesday that it plans to conduct a 4-month experiment to measure blood- ...
Kansai University will ban its researchers from applying for Defense Ministry funds for projects that could then be used for military technologies, its president said Thursday. The Defense Ministry's subsidy program, which started in fiscal 2015, has drawn criticism from some academics who are concerned ...
On Oct. 3, Japan celebrated the news that Tokyo-based microbiologist Yoshinori Ohsumi had won a Nobel Prize. It was the third consecutive year for a Japanese scientist to win a Nobel. Yet the achievements of Ohsumi, 71, and other recent laureates seem increasingly out of ...
The Imperial Household Agency announced Thursday that Emperor Akihito's research paper on tanuki, or raccoon dogs living on the Imperial Palace grounds has been published in a research report by the National Museum of Nature and Science. The report, co-authored with agency officials, was the ...
