On a per-capita basis, Japan has no shortage of hospital beds. Yet, thousands of individuals with COVID-19 are self-isolating at home or hotels with little access to treatment as hospitals remain ...

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Kyoto University Hospital is looking to develop a treatment ... Currently, 100,000 to 140,000 people in Japan have the disease. Pending the results of the clinical trial, researchers are hoping ...

Traveling to Japan as a tourist has been a breeze for visitors from 71 visa-exempt countries and regions, as there’s no requirement to obtain a short-stay visa at a local embassy prior to travel.

“The latest I would leave [the office] would be 11 p.m.,” said the 24-year-old, who used to work for some of Japan’s largest ... a 26-year-old doctor from a hospital in Kobe died by suicide ...

TOKYO—Japan is planning a multibillion-dollar network of small satellites to monitor ships and military sites, its latest response to a barrage of pressure from China that includes a recent ...

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Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Tropical storm Shanshan continued to impact Japan, causing torrential rain, landslides and widespread flooding over the weekend. The storm ...

Understanding Japan’s system for classifying typhoons can be a challenge. For one, it differs from that used for hurricanes, and there are also differences in how the storms are discussed in ...