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HEALTHCARE

Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Jul 31, 2018
Time to empower Â鶹´«Ã½ chief medical officer
Japan needs a Cabinet-level official who can inform national efforts to create best practices for addressing key health concerns.
EDITORIALS
Jun 26, 2018
Fill the gap in nursing care workers
Action must be taken now to ensure the supply of nursing care workers meets the rapidly rising demand.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 22, 2016
Sony-backed M3 targeting investments in health care startups
M3 Inc., a medical Web portal backed by Sony Corp., is embarking on a plan to step up investments in health care startups at home and abroad.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2014
Nintendo¡¯s first health care device will be sleep and fatigue tracker
Video game maker Nintendo Co. will develop a device to measure people¡¯s fatigue and map their sleep, Chief Executive Satoru Iwata said Thursday in announcing the first offering from the company¡¯s newly created health care division.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / SEEN AT CEATEC
Oct 7, 2014
Toshiba unveils a humanoid robot that could be a sign of the times
If you visit the Toshiba booth at CEATEC this week you¡¯ll be greeted by ChihiraAico, who can communicate in sign language . . . and who just happens to be an android.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Apr 19, 2014
Now is the time to research Alzheimer¡¯s
The team leader at the Laboratory for Proteolytic Neuroscience at Riken¡¯s Brain Science Institute is not a man usually given to making apocalyptic statements.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 11, 2014
Pain in the body may start in the mind
Good diagnosis takes persistent questioning and good analytical skills. It¡¯s a bit like a detective piecing together a puzzle from seemingly unrelated bits of information.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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