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JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 7, 2014
Japan to adopt new strategy on dementia care: Abe
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday at an international conference on dementia care in Tokyo that Japan will work out a new national strategy to boost measures dealing with the age-linked illness in the rapidly graying country.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 7, 2014
Ebola surging in Sierra Leone amid lack of treatment centers: U.N.
The number of Ebola cases is surging in Sierra Leone due to a lack of treatment centers, the United Nations said, while scarcity of food may also be forcing some people to leave quarantined areas, risking further spread of the virus.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Oct 28, 2014
Organizational flaws, collusive ties taking a toll on the WHO
Critics of the World Health Organization say its inability to fight Ebola thus far can be traced not only to its own organizational problems but also to its 'collusive relations' with the pharmaceutical industry.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 24, 2014
WHO voices confidence no wider spread of Ebola in Africa
The World Health Organization said on Thursday it was still trying to slow the rate of new infections but had "reasonable confidence" that the Ebola virus plaguing three West African countries had not spread into neighboring states.
WORLD
Oct 18, 2014
WHO declares Senegal Ebola-free
The outbreak of Ebola in Senegal is officially over, but the West African country remains vulnerable to further cases of the deadly disease being imported, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 17, 2014
WHO to test Ebola preparedness in Coite d'Ivoire and Mali
The World Health Organization will send experts to test the Ebola-preparedness measures in Cote d'Ivoire and Mali, the two countries at greatest risk of being the next to be affected by the epidemic, WHO's health security response chief, Isabelle Nuttall, said on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2014
No biohazard facilities in Japan can handle Ebola
Despite government assurances that Japan can handle an Ebola outbreak, there are no biosafety facilities rated to handle the deadly virus and 400 SDF troops are stationed near Congo.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 15, 2014
West Africa to see up to 10,000 Ebola cases a week by Dec. 1: WHO
The number of new Ebola cases in three West African nations may jump to between 5,000 and 10,000 a week by Dec. 1 as the deadly viral infection spreads, the World Health Organization said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 25, 2014
Doctor calls for blood donations to treat Liberian Ebola victims
The head of a treatment center in Liberia, the country worst-hit by West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak, has urged survivors of the disease to donate their blood for use in treating infected patients.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 18, 2014
West African powerhouse Cote d'Ivoire battles to keep out Ebola
The billboard depicts a masked health worker in a biohazard suit looming over a bed-ridden patient. Above them, bright red letters warn commuters on a busy Abidjan street that "The Ebola risk is always there".
WORLD / Society
Sep 5, 2014
WHO calls for action to reduce global suicide rate of 800,000 a year
More than 800,000 people each year worldwide commit suicide — around one person every 40 seconds — with many using poisoning, hanging or shooting to end their own lives, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
JAPAN
Sep 4, 2014
Japan's suicide rate exceeds world average: WHO report
The suicide rate for Japan is roughly 60 percent higher than the global average, with 18.5 people out of every 100,000 committing suicide in 2012, according to a World Health Organization report released Thursday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 29, 2014
West Africa Ebola outbreak could infect 20,000 people: WHO
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could infect more than 20,000 people, the U.N. health agency said Thursday, warning that an international effort costing almost half a billion dollars is needed to overcome the outbreak.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 28, 2014
Glaxo's Ebola vaccine may begin safety tests in humans next week
U.S. scientists will begin enrolling patients as soon as next week in clinical safety trials of GlaxoSmithKline PLC's experimental Ebola vaccine as the death toll from the disease rises in West Africa.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 26, 2014
Ebola fight needs $430 million to end outbreak: WHO
More than $430 million will be needed to bring the worst Ebola outbreak on record under control, according to a draft document laying out the World Health Organization's battle strategy.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2014
Japan to help fight Ebola outbreak if requested
If requested, the government will provide to the World Health Organization and other parties an unapproved medicine that might help combat the deadly Ebola virus, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 25, 2014
Congo declares Ebola outbreak in northern Equateur province
Democratic Republic of Congo declared an Ebola outbreak in its northern Equateur province on Sunday after two out of eight cases tested came back positive for the deadly virus, Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 22, 2014
Africa tightens Ebola travel curbs as affected countries face food shortages
African countries tightened travel curbs on Thursday in an effort to contain the Ebola outbreak, ignoring World Health Organization warnings that such measures could heighten shortages of food and basic supplies in affected areas.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 21, 2014
Liberian police shoot to disperse Ebola quarantine protest; virus deaths reach 1,350
Police in the Liberian capital Monrovia fired live rounds and teargas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd trying to break an Ebola quarantine imposed on their neighborhood, as the death toll from the epidemic in West Africa hit 1,350.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 13, 2014
WHO hopes for more Ebola drug doses, vaccine progress by end of year
World Health Organization experts fighting the world's worst outbreak of Ebola hope for improved supplies of experimental treatments and progress with a vaccine by the end of the year.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Yen swings stir talk that Japan is in the FX market once again
An electronic screen in Tokyo displays the yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar and the graph showing its recent swings, on Thursday.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
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.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
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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