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Employees select sheets of Green Virginia tobacco leaves for processing at a Japan Tobacco cigarette plant in Senta, Serbia. While rivals have set ambitious targets for "smoke-free” products, Japan Tobacco has focused more on conventional combustible tobacco products.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 4, 2025
Japan Tobacco is doubling down on cheap cigarettes
While rivals have set ambitious targets for “smoke-free” products, Japan Tobacco has focused more on conventional combustible tobacco products.
Flu season began earlier than usual this year, with Okinawa Prefecture reporting the largest number of cases per hospital in the week up to Sunday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 3, 2025
Japan enters its second-earliest flu season in 20 years
Okinawa had the most cases on average by prefecture, at 8.98 patients per medical institution, followed by 1.96 for Tokyo, 1.68 for Kagoshima, and Fukuoka with 1.55.
Students suffering from food poisoning after eating a meal from the government's free meal program receive treatment at the Kadungora Public Health Center in Garut, West Java on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 3, 2025
Indonesia free meals program under fire after thousands sickened
More than 1,300 children were rushed to health clinics last week after suffering from breathing difficulties, nausea and diarrhea.
Fatimata Madou shows a photo of Mohamat, her 9-month-old child who died of malaria.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 3, 2025
Babies’ deaths in Cameroon show how U.S. aid cuts curtail malaria fight
Upon taking office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump paused all foreign aid, including the President’s Malaria Initiative, launched in 2005 by George W. Bush.
Princess Aiko has tested positive for COVID-19, the Imperial Household Agency said Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2025
Princess Aiko tests positive for COVID-19
The princess underwent testing after reporting a fever of about 38.5 degrees Celsius and throat pain at noon Tuesday.
Pedestrians pass through a cooling mist in Tokyo's Ginza district in August.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 2, 2025
Japan saw record number treated for heatstroke in hottest-ever summer
Patients with suspected heatstroke over the period rose almost 3% to 100,143 from a year earlier as Japan saw its temperature record broken twice in a matter of days.
Smartphones help passengers pass the time on a train near Toyoake, an industrial suburb of Nagoya.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2025
Can this city make residents put down their smartphones?
The ordinance, which was approved in a 12-7 vote by the city assembly last week, is largely symbolic, but there is heavy social pressure in Japan to follow official guidelines.
Signage outside the Capitol Hill visitors center in Washington notifies the public of its closure due to the government shutdown on Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2025
The U.S. government shutdown fight has life-or-death consequences
About 4.2 million people are expected to lose coverage if Congress fails to extend premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Japanese researchers estimated that as of 2023, there were 316,900 people in Japan with ulcerative colitis and 95,700 with Crohn’s disease.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 29, 2025
Japan sees 40% surge in chronic bowel disease cases over eight years
On a population basis, a study published this month shows prevalence is now 254.8 cases of ulcerative colitis and 77.0 cases of Crohn’s per 100,000 people.
Tylenol for sale at a pharmacy in New York on Sept. 5
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025
Trump administration to link Tylenol to autism, report says
Officials plan to warn pregnant women against using the medication, one of the world’s most common, over-the-counter pain relievers, unless they have a fever.
Japan's Mebuki Suzuki in action with Uganda's Oscar Chelimo in the men's 10,000 meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sept. 14
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 22, 2025
The Japanese face and body patches that have had the world wondering
Some athletes at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo swear by the products.
Bill Gates, chairman of the Gates Foundation, visits Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Aug. 19.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 21, 2025
The world needs Japan’s leadership in life sciences
For decades now, Japan has understood the value of global health investment better than almost any other country on the planet.
Erectile dysfunction drug Cialis
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 19, 2025
Panel OKs first OTC sales of erectile dysfunction drug in Japan
Cialis is set to become the first erectile dysfunction treatment that can be purchased at drugstores in Japan.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent decades promoting vaccine misinformation, including the widely debunked claim that the MMR shot causes autism.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 19, 2025
RFK Jr. panelists make initial changes to childhood vaccine schedule
The vote against the MMRV shot comes as public health experts fear more changes that flout prevailing medical advice are in the pipeline.
Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
JAPAN / Science & Health / Longform
Sep 15, 2025
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
Young Japanese are saying no to booze — and yes to mocktails, gaming and sober nights out. Breweries are pivoting to meet them.
Omar Abu Kuwaik, a 6-year-old Gazan child who lost an arm, gestures as six Gazan families with wounded children arrive at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport for medical treatment in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sept. 2
WORLD
Sep 11, 2025
Missing limbs and loved ones, Gazan children begin treatment abroad
At least 45,000 children have been wounded in Gaza, many of them suffering life-changing injuries, according to UNICEF.
Emergency room visits for self-harm and suicide attempts have been rising since 2019, with the sharpest increases observed among young people and women, a report revealed on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 10, 2025
More people being hospitalized in Japan for self-harm, attempted suicide: report
In 2023, a total of 42,977 people were taken to hospital, 2,721 more than the previous year, according to the Japan Suicide Countermeasures Promotion Center.
Kirin officials in Tokyo on Tuesday show the Electric Salt Cup, which lets users feel salty tastes more strongly and thus cut down on salt intake.
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2025
Kirin releases electric soup cup that enhances salty taste
The cup is available on the company’s official online store at a price of ¥26,950 ($182).
Japan previously only allowed preimplantation genetic testing for those who could not get pregnant even after multiple embryo transfers following in vitro fertilization or those who experienced repeated miscarriages and stillbirths.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 9, 2025
Japan expands preimplantation genetic testing eligibility
Eligibility was limited to those who could not get pregnant after embryo transfers following in vitro fertilization or those who experienced repeated miscarriages and stillbirths.
Takeda Pharmaceutical’s experimental narcolepsy drug shows significant improvement in late-stage trials, potentially targeting the root cause of the disorder.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 9, 2025
Takeda nears first therapy for root cause of narcolepsy
Patients who took the drug, called oveporexton, for 12 weeks experienced increased daytime alertness and an overall improvement in quality of life.
China’s demand for Soviet-style apartments shows limits to revival
Apartments built during a Soviet Union-inspired construction drive in the 1970s and 1980s tend to suffer from poor insulation and outdated plumbing, but they are seeing a revival in interest due to their attractive locations.
Japanese scientists identify neural mechanism that may explain why we dislike people
The aggressive mouse (left) used in the experiment and a mouse defending itself
Japanese payment processor’s collapse hits banks and restaurants
Zentoshin served around 200,000 shops, many of which rely on early payments to maintain cash flow, raising concerns over their financial stability following the disruption.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
Lenders seek $700 million after Japanese payments firm’s collapse
The financial failure of Osaka-based Zentoshin has left 63 creditors with claims totaling ¥115.16 billion, according to Tokyo Shoko Research.
Japan’s largest exhibition of women photographers rights a wrong in cultural history
Miwa Yanagi’s “Elevator Girl House” series skewers the superficiality of gender roles through staged images.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
‘Princess Mononoke’ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging
The “Princess Mononoke” adaptation was created under Shochiku’s Super Kabuki initiative, a modern form of kabuki with more technology in staging and open to pop culture collaborations.
The beating heart inside ‘Human Vapor’
Different forms of love and connection form the emotional backbone of Netflix’s “Human Vapor,” says actor Shun Oguri, who plays troubled detective Kenji Okamoto.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.

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