In an effort to address its ongoing organ donor shortage crisis, Japan has started breeding the first pigs genetically engineered for human organ transplants. This significant success, announced by ...

A hiker attacked by a wild brown bear was found dead in northern Japan on Friday, officials said, a day after the bloody encounter that reportedly saw him dragged into a forest. The hiker in his 20s ...

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The skeletal remains of an unidentified person were found in water Wednesday near the home of the U.S. 7th Fleet. The discovery was made near the shoreline of Recreation ...

Katsuhiko Hayashi pulls a clear plastic dish from an incubator and slides it under a microscope. "You really want to see the actual cells, right?" Hayashi asks as he motions toward the microscope.

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headlamp and enters a cave buried in Okinawa's jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the skulls, he says, ...

The body would serve as a cross-agency “control tower” to respond to issues such as crime and over-tourism involving foreigners, the government said. Japan has long sought to maintain a homogeneous ...

The Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) issued a Human Rights Policy and an Integrity Code of Conduct on August 26, 2025, ahead of the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, which ...