Policy & Society

2024.12.10

Social implementation of autonomous driving is a good opportunity to experience the spread of science and technology in real time

2024.12.09

Science Council of Japan drafts recommendations for Seventh Science, Technology, and Innovation Basic Plan

2024.12.04

Workplace stress poses a risk of obesity: Follow-up study involving more than 10,000 employees of Osaka University

2024.12.02

AI lip-reading app to playback lip movements — Voices lost due to illness can now be restored

2024.11.29

2025 Osaka Expo centerpiece "Grand Ring" lit up for first time

2024.11.28

CSTI expert meeting discusses startup ecosystem hub cities: Tokyo and other cities making good progress, but venture capital investment disappointing

2024.11.26

Hiroshima University evaluates advanced emergency braking systems for large trucks: No significant differences in collision rate and damage amount

2024.11.25

Times Higher Education (THE) releases results of its World University Rankings 2025: The University of Tokyo, Tohoku University move up

2024.11.15

Powering innovation in partnership with researchers: R&D management personnel in the spotlight

2024.11.15

Institute of Science Tokyo establishes three research institutes for "fusion of different fields"

2024.11.14

UNESCO to add Japan sake-brewing to intangible heritage list

2024.11.14

Regular light-intensity exercise erases fear memory — Findings from the University of Tsukuba expected to aid in PTSD prevention

2024.11.12

OMU Finds that Chinese herbal medicine and tea materials improve cognitive function in mice

2024.11.07

Onion as hangover relief — Quercetin protects cells from toxicity

2024.11.01

Gut microbiota diversity associated with temperament in early childhood

2024.10.22

Over 10% of Japan elderly to have no close kin in 2050: research

2024.10.21

Japan team seeks approval for pig kidney transplant to human fetus

2024.10.18

MEXT support program for strengthening medical research to begin next fiscal year: 60-100M yen per year for institutions; 15M yen for researchers

2024.10.17

MEXT requests an estimated 11.5% budget increase to 5,953 billion yen for next fiscal year

2024.10.16

Nihon University, Hamamatsu Medical School find that video games improve well-being — Analysis of responses from a wide range of ages living in Japan

2024.10.15

AI filling customer service roles in Japan amid labor shortage

2024.10.15

Japan startup's shoe vibrator helps visually impaired to navigate

2024.10.10

"Theory of the three ancestral components" of the Japanese people challenges the commonly accepted theory: Evolutionary anthropology explores essence of human species and Japanese based on genome analysis