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UCSF researchers are beginning to uncover how Candida auris, a skin fungus, threatens the most vulnerable patients. A fungus that can live unnoticed on human skin has become a serious threat in hospitals around the world. First identified in Japan in 2009, Candida auris can become deadly if it enter...
Roden Readers — OK, so I need to retract something from the previous Roden sent just a couple weeks back. The weather in Japan, in AUGUST, has been … SOMEWHAT SANE? A series of typhoons — some glancing off Japan, others smacking it — has dropped the humidity, made temperatures livable, and cooled th...
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What makes the brain keep chasing a reward when the effort starts to outweigh the payoff? A small group of cells may help decide when to persist and when to give up. Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan found that orexin neurons became increasingly active as rats worked harder to obtain food. S...
A crab trapped by its own growth exposes an overlooked hazard of floating plastic waste. About 500 meters off Sesoko Island in Okinawa, Japan, a plastic bottle drifted at the sea surface with juvenile fish gathered around it. Inside was something harder to explain: a live swimming crab whose body ha...
There’s no party like a mascot party, or so they say. Series 4 of Forza Horizon 6, Horizon Mascot Party, is going live this week, ushering a new cycle of the four season in Horizon Japan, and a fresh new Festival Playlist (the game’s equivalent to a free battle pass) will become available. Ten cars ...
Sony and TSMC plan to invest about 1 trillion yen, roughly $6.3 billion, in a joint venture to mass-produce next-generation image sensors in Kumamoto, Japan. Production could start as early as 2029. [Read More]
False claims after major disasters can make an already frightening situation even worse.
When I travel to Japan it seems like I race from class to class. Or, I race from train to train through Tokyo to explore the historic sites of Japan and our Bujinkan art. But here I stopped the race to enjoy training with Nagase Sensei and think about tiny insects.I slowed down for 考え事 kangaegoto...
Whenever Clara and I need some mid-afternoon motivation when we’re in the home office, we put on Kenshi Yonezu’s 2017 masterpiece Bootleg. I realised I’ve never shared any of it, so I reckon it warrants a Music Monday: What genre does Kenshi Yonezu perform? Yes! As an aside, this was among the firs...
Outside its native range, colonies introduced into North America, Japan, Australia, South Africa, and Europe have merged into huge supercolonies.
A metal that has never been recorded before turned up in a grain of sand from Hiroshima Bay. Writing in Science Advances, Luca Bindi, Hans-Rudolf Wenk, Mario Wannier, and Teresa Salvatici report the discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast, sealed inside a glassy bead...
Osaka ranked seventh and Tokyo tenth in the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2026 Global Liveability Index. Japan was the only Asian country with two cities in the top 10. BBC Travel asked residents and planners why, and their answers came down to four rules. — Read the rest The post Why Osaka and Tok...
Our last day in Japan was wrecked by Japan Airlines, as our JAL flight from Sapporo to Tokyo Haneda got delayed by five hours… The worst part was being kept in the dark about the delay till the initial departure time and then more as the actual departure time was only given hours later. An […]
Welcome to SCOTUSblog’s recurring series in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and how they compare with our own. Today’s column focuses on the Supreme Court of Japan. To help me comprehend this apparent bastion of conservatism, I corresponded with Professor Davi...
De Acupunctura is a 1683 book by the Dutch physician Willem ten Rhijne, and it came out of one of the most roundabout translation jobs on record. Ten Rhijne was living at Dejima, the artificial island off Nagasaki that was the only piece of Japan open to Europeans during the Edo period. — Read the r...
In the year 937, Mount Fuji erupted and sent the Ken-Marubi lava flow down its northern slopes and over a stand of fallen trees. The lava hardened around the trunks while the wood inside burned away, leaving long hollow tubes in the ground. — Read the rest The post A 937 eruption at Mount Fuji left...
Photo and reporting by Stacie Joy A new vegan ramen spot is preparing to open on Allen Street just south of Houston. RedWhite Boneless Ramen specializes in vegan ramen and sushi rolls, with an all-electric kitchen (though it also has a functioning gas line). The concept started in Japan before expan...
Insider Brief Press release – Australian researchers and students will gain access to advanced quantum computing technology under a Memorandum of Understanding between global digital transformation leader, Fujitsu, Monash University, and Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO. The collaboration ...
Parents may struggle to learn all there is to know about children's health. A pediatrician in Saku, Japan, has made it his mission to help.
Roden Readers — There is sweat and then there is s-w-e-a-t and the out-of-doorsness in Japan is presently a natural machine that produces nothing but sweat and sweat and sweat and swelter. Dryness has been eradicated. Fire is impossible to start. Blowtorch any single thing and it will laugh in your ...
Inshoku Yojo Kagami, or "Mirror of the Physiology of Drinking and Eating," is a nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock print of a man eating fish and drinking sake, with his torso cut away to show the crew of tiny workers keeping him going. — Read the rest The post Japanese prints show tiny workers ...
Sega’s free-to-play online action RPG, Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis has turned 14. Well, that’s counting the years when it was known simply as Phantasy Star Online 2 (PSO2), launched in 2012 in Japan and a whole eight years later worldwide in 2020. Its current form, New Genesis (NGS), which is...
My experience living in Osaka and Tokyo on a Working Holiday visa, with practical advice on preparation, housing, work, useful apps, and places to eat.
"This thing is laser targeted to be a huge hit in Japan."
A protein known for circulating in the blood to fight infection plays a very different role when produced by cells inside tumors. A protein that emerged long before animals developed circulatory systems may influence whether cancer immunotherapy succeeds. Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan fo...
In early 2025 more people died in Canada than were born, and the country grew anyway. The shortfall was filled from outside, as it now must be. A look at how Canada engineered its dependence on immigration, and why Quebec, Germany, France, Türkiye and Japan meet the same arithmetic and deny it in di...
Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs an adaptation of Honobu Yonezawa’s 2021 novel, starring Masahiro Motoki as a feudal lord solving murder mysteries in 16th-century Japan.
The economics of recycling could improve significantly.
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck southern Japan on July 28, forcing evacuations at three of the biggest names in image sensor production. Sony has since confirmed that production remains stopped at its largest sensor plant while it checks the site for damage. [Read More]
"He's locked in, ready to get himself a lady."
The discovery also closes an important gap in the known history of a very ancient amphibian family.
A strong inland earthquake in southwestern Japan trapped people inside a shopping center and damaged infrastructure. Here's what made this quake unusual and why aftershocks remain a concern.
The search for alternative supplies comes after a series of Chinese trade restrictions.
The quake, which has caused damage to several roads and buildings, occurred along a strike-slip fault
"I'm a lot more open to hearing them out."
One of the many interesting talks at EAA AirVenture (“Oshkosh”) 2026 was by James Schreiber, a U.S. Navy veteran-turned-IBM-patent-lawyer with a passion for seaplanes. First, there is no reason that seaplanes can’t be part of a modern navy. The ShinMaywa US-2 is a four-engine monster with tremendous...
By Ray Wills, Peter Newman AO, and Raphael Wellmann China’s latest NEV plan makes one thing clear: the future global car hierarchy is being decided at home, not in export markets. Less expected is the rapid rise of Thailand, which is following China’s playbook with striking success. Beijing’s new ca...
Discommunication, a fantastic book of street photography by Hiroshima, Japan–based artist Yoshi Yubai (right, white t-shirt), published by Landslide, a Sydney, Australia–based imprint run by Jake Wotherspoon (left), is part of the ongoing SF Art Book Far (sfartbookfair.com), which opened last night,...
Relativity Space announced plans to build a second rocket factory near Cape Canaveral, Florida.
"The Rib Woman," an episode of the new Japanese anthology series 'Strange: Junji Ito's Tales for Sleepless Nights,' is a promising adaptation of the manga master's work.
Directed by Yoshimitsu Banno, 1971's 'Godzilla Vs. Hedorah' introduced a new foe for Godzilla, and a new era for the longest-running kaiju franchise.
Even locked doors haven’t always kept the animal out.
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