The team, including researchers from Japan's National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, focused on the protein amyloid beta ...

This northeastern Japan town has seen a string of cases where a bear suddenly entered homes and devoured sweets, pickles and ...

As school pools age across Japan, some public elementary and junior high schools are opting to share pools with nearby ...

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A record 1,319 teachers at public elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan left their jobs because of mental illness ...

Japanese Lolita fashion, with its lace-trimmed dresses, ruffled collars and voluminous skirts inspired by Western dolls, is ...

The Japanese government will set up an expert panel as early as this month to review regulations on accepting foreign ...

A 61-year-old resident of Kyoto's Nishikyo Ward was arrested on July 23 on suspicion of inflicting injury after allegedly ...

A district in this central Japan city recorded Japan's highest temperature of the year on July 23, reaching a scorching 41.1 ...

Japan's revised Code of Criminal Procedure has been enacted. This is the first review of the retrial system since the ...

The Japanese slugger had a choice to make. He could return to Stanford, where he played college baseball for two seasons. He ...

A Japanese project to secure critical minerals from deep waters off Minamitori Island in the Pacific has identified multiple ...