Policy & Society

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

2024.10.10

Japan's antitrust watchdog launches risk study into generative AI

2024.10.08

Basic policy decided for the Global Startup Campus Initiative, an innovation hub in the heart of Tokyo

2024.10.08

Elsevier report on active paper authorship: Female authorship increases to over 40%, but 22% in Japan; "Progress Slow"

2024.10.03

Japan research team newly finds over 300 geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca

2024.10.02

Fostering industries for achieving fusion power generation — Development of three innovation centers at QST, NIFS, and Osaka University

2024.09.30

Even mushrooms look expressive when they move — The University of Tokyo imaging experiments find that social behavior makes us look differently at non-human forms

2024.09.27

Japan pledges 3 mil. doses of mpox vaccine to WHO

2024.09.26

Japan halts gene research of athletes amid privacy concerns

2024.09.26

How can endangered flowers be conserved? Special exhibition "Alpine Plants - The Diversity and Ecosystems of Flowers Beyond Reach" is being held at the National Museum of Nature and Science

2024.09.25

Japan's over-65s hit record high 36.25 mil., 1 in 4 working

2024.09.24

Sushi dishes to ride on 135-meter conveyor belt at 2025 Osaka Expo

2024.09.18

Science and Technology Indicators 2024: World of scientific research divided in two — G7 and OECD countries versus China and Global South

2024.09.12

Cabinet approves new action plan for infectious disease control "Readiness in Normal Times": The first major shake-up in 10 years

2024.09.10

Using data science to understand the present: Supporting global health policymaking

2024.09.09

Research shows dragonflies have long been on menu in northeast Japan

2024.09.05

Soymilk production volume remains high — Japan Soymilk Association announces market trends: Attributable to increased health awareness and improved taste?