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Although vaccines for rubella are widely available, identifying the main receptor for the rubella virus will hopefully aid the development of antiviral drugs and infection prevention methods.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 11, 2026
Japan research team identifies rubella virus receptor
Although vaccines for rubella are widely available, identifying the main receptor for the virus may aid the development of antiviral drugs.
Congolese medical workers carry the coffin containing the body of a doctor who died at an Ebola treatment center after contracting the virus, during her burial in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2026
The world’s perilous Ebola complacency
Global leaders must fund the Africa-led regional response today, or risk paying a higher price in human lives and economic devastation tomorrow.
A tractor specially adapted for licorice cultivation is used to harvest the medicinal plant in Abira, Hokkaido, on Oct. 20.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 2, 2026
Oji makes inroads on licorice cultivation in Japan
A unit of the paper manufacturer has established a large-scale harvesting system for the medicinal plant in Hokkaido to create stable supply.
Omron Healthcare has been expanding its market share for blood pressure monitors in India since it set up a local sales company in 2010.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 2, 2026
Omron to raise output capacity for blood pressure monitors at Indian plant
The move will take capacity at the Chennai plant, which started operations in November last year, to 3 million units a year.
Keiichiro Ishiguro, a professor at Chiba University's Graduate School of Medicine, explains the findings of his research team at the education ministry on Thursday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 30, 2026
Japanese researchers discover protein that may shed light on fertility decline
The findings could give insight into why older people face higher risks of infertility, miscarriage and their children having chromosomal disorders.
A team at Fujita Health University submitted a research plan on Monday to study transplants for women who have no uterus and wish to become pregnant.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 29, 2026
Fujita Health University seeks approval for uterus transplant study
The team’s research plan calls for studying transplants for women without a uterus who wish to become pregnant and give birth.
Tavneos was launched in Japan in June 2022 after receiving approval from the health ministry. Its package insert listed liver dysfunction as a serious side effect.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 22, 2026
Health ministry questions reliability of vasculitis drug approval data
Tavneos was launched in Japan in 2022 after being approved by the ministry. Its package insert listed liver dysfunction as a serious side effect.
Leading-edge Semiconductor Technology Center Chairman Tetsuro Higashi (second from left) and others at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2026
New project aims to create AI medical image-processing system in Japan
The goal is to realize the real-time image processing required at medical sites with the use of advanced semiconductors.
Nadia Akter Manna and Humayun Rashid look at a dress belonging to their 9-month-old daughter, Labiba Akter, who died during a recent deadly measles outbreak, in Sunamganj, Bangladesh.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 20, 2026
Bangladesh battle against measles a ‘real warning’ to other nations
So far, 1,147 people have died of the highly contagious disease, with 94% of reported deaths among children under five years old, the WHO said.
RiHeart, an iPS cell-based sheet, has been put into practical use for heart surgery after it was exhibited at the 2025 Osaka Expo.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 20, 2026
Technologies seen at Osaka Expo increasingly being put into practice
Heart muscle cells, a “human washing machine” and a flying car have all seen new interest or progress since the event.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivers remarks while President Donald Trump listens during a news conference to announce a link between autism and childhood vaccines and the use of popular pain medication Tylenol for pregnant women and children, claims which are not backed by science, at the White House in Washington in September last year.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 11, 2026
Trust in science falls as COVID-era confidence fades, global survey finds
The retreat has potentially far-reaching consequences for public health as vaccination rates decline and preventable diseases resurge.
The health ministry declared the start of the flu season on Aug. 28, the second-earliest date since records began in 1999.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 9, 2026
As influenza cases rise, residents rush to get flu shots
The average number of flu patients in Japan jumped to 11.35 per clinic for the week through Oct. 4.
Rakuten Medical CEO Minami Maeda in an interview in Yokohama in August
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2026
Rakuten Medical eyes U.S. market for its novel idea to conquer cancer
The biotech startup’s treatment uses light to destroy target cells, offering patients a way to heal with minimal damage to healthy tissue.
Naoki Nishio, an associate professor of otolaryngology at Nagoya University, managed to raise some ?4.2 million from 148 people through a crowdfunding campaign last year that had a first-stage goal of ?3 million.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2026
As state funding stalls, medical researchers in Japan pivot to crowdfunding
Medical campaigns have surged, particularly since the pandemic, when the acute shortage of resources at some hospitals became widely known.
Nobel Committee Secretary-General Thomas Perlmann speaks to the media in front of a screen displaying the names of this year's laureates for the prize in medicine and physiology, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, during an announcement of the winners at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 5, 2026
Scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine for work on ‘light-gated ion channels and optogenetics’
Scientists Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 ?Nobel Prize in ?physiology or ?medicine.
Boxes of medicine move along conveyor belts at Toho Pharmaceutical's distribution center in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture. Japan has increasingly positioned the drug industry as a strategic sector, citing its importance to economic security and future growth.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 5, 2026
Japan wants a pharma boom. It needs a new strategy.
Japan is seeking to make pharmaceuticals a pillar of economic growth and security, requiring innovation and manufacturing capacity.
A junior high school's gym designated as an evacuation center in Hikawa, Kumamoto Prefecture. More than 1,300 people are still staying at evacuation centers two months after the July 28 quake that hit the region.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2026
Flu spreads in quake-hit Kumamoto as Japan sees early outbreak
With more than 1,300 people still in evacuation centers two months after the temblor, an expert has stressed the importance of early vaccination.
Morning commuters cross a street near Tokyo Station in the Marunouchi district of Tokyo on Tuesday. The health ministry said Friday that recent figures signal a nationwide flu outbreak.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 2, 2026
Japan hit by nationwide flu outbreak
The health ministry is asking the public to take basic precautions against infection such as handwashing and covering the mouth when coughing.
Patients infected with dengue receive treatment at a hospital in Dhaka on Sept. 7.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 1, 2026
Bangladesh warns dengue outbreak could worsen after deadly September
The warning is piling pressure on hospitals already fighting the world’s worst measles outbreak.
A lab-grown heart made from induced pluripotent stem cells in Osaka in April 2025
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 30, 2026
Heart muscle stem cells see first clinical use in surgery in Japan
Sheets of muscle cells derived from regenerative products known as iPS cells were transplanted into the heart of a patient in her 50s.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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