Kyoko Tanaka, a child mental health specialist and associate professor at Juntendo University, explained. "May blues" is not a medical term. It refers to a state in which a person loses mental and ...

TOKYO -- The Japanese government is promoting the spread of "smart cash registers" -- cloud-based checkout systems that ...

Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday unveiled the TZ, the first three-row electric vehicle under its luxury Lexus brand, to be ...

More Japanese companies are beginning to treat differences in brain and neurological function as part of human diversity, ...

An atomic bomb-damaged former hospital outpatient building here, which served as a relief base immediately after the attack ...

Some 36% of respondents to a recent Mainichi Shimbun survey supported revising the Constitution to allow extensions of ...

Many Bank of Japan policymakers called for the central bank to consider raising the key interest rate, the minutes of their ...

A new survey in Iwate Prefecture shows that about 85% of nurses think about quitting their jobs. Many say they are too tired, ...

Shohei Ohtani snapped his hitless streak in a 2-for-4 outing as the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Houston Astros 12-2 on Wednesday ...

The Nikkei stock index rose briefly over 4 percent early Thursday, hitting a record intraday high, tracking overnight Wall ...

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