Japan Approves the World’s First Treatment Made With Reprogrammed Human Cells

Researchers in Japan pioneered reprogrammed cells 20 years ago. Now the country has given the first-ever authorizations to manufacture and sell medical products based on the technology.

Banned foods and drinks your grandparents loved – including one 800 times more likely to cause food poisoning

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

Psychology Behind the Internet’s Obsession With Punch, the Abandoned Monkey While Immigrant Kids Are Stripped From Their Parents

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 ...
New Scientist

Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

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 ...

Veterinarians in Japan and the UK view animal welfare through different cultural lenses

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

UP CM Yogi Adityanath's 1st visit to Japan aims to expand industrial relations, human resource exchange

Tokyo [Japan], February 27 (ANI): Indian prominent statesman Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh state, made first visit to Japan. Indian prominent statesman Yogi Adityanath, Chief ...
Nature

Genetically modified pig liver keeps man alive until human organ transplant

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

Teeth, bones and blessings: At Rosemead Buddhist temple, relics inspire belief

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

Japan Should Adopt Regulation to Counter Uyghur Forced Labor

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 ...
Nikkei Asia

The human cost of Japan's immigration pivot

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 ...