These ingredients were part of many people's daily diets in the 1940s and 1950s, but have since been restricted over safety concerns ...

We explore the dark truth of why the internet rallies more around a zoo monkey than detained kids separated from their immigrant parents. Punch, the baby monkey has captivated international audiences ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

A new international survey reveals clear differences in how veterinarians and animal welfare scientists in Japan and the UK ...

A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

Every Lunar New Year for the last 14 years, a Buddhist temple in Rosemead has displayed what it calls the '10,000 Buddha ...

Japanese lawmakers and Uyghur activists gathered on February 25 at an event hosted by the Japan Uyghur Association in Tokyo to address the Chinese government’s atrocity crimes in the Xinjiang Uyghur ...

Takehiro Masutomo is a journalist and the author of the bestselling Japanese-language nonfiction book "Run Ri" about the wave of affluent Chinese moving to Japan. He is also an adjunct researcher at ...

I can't be the only one absolutely engulfed by updates on the life of that little monkey at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, who was rejected by his mother and found some comfort in a stuffed orangutan ...

Health Ministry officials said Monday they have found a fourth case of mad cow disease in Japan. Officials said they had confirmed that a 6-year-old Holstein dairy cow on a farm in Hokkaido had tested ...