The move by Nagasaki University is a once-unthinkable decision in a country that has just recently cracked down on its heavy-smoking ways.
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Japan to Compensate Forcibly Sterilized Patients, Decades After the Fact
Under a eugenics law repealed in 1996, thousands of Japanese were sterilized because of intellectual disabilities, mental illness or genetic disorders.
Times Insider: Pressed for Time: When Big News Breaks on the Other Side of the World
Significant time differences from New York pose all kinds of coverage obstacles for Times editors and correspondents.
Japan Has a New Emperor. Now It Needs a Software Update.
It isn’t exactly Y2K, but the country is scrambling to reconcile its systems with the ancient demands of an imperial calendar.
Removing Fuel Rods, Japan Hits Milestone in Fukushima Nuclear Cleanup
After a yearslong delay, the nuclear plant’s operator began removing radioactive fuel rods at one of three reactors that melted down after an earthquake and a tsunami in 2011.
U.S. Navy Sailor and Japanese Woman Are Found Dead in Okinawa
The deaths are being investigated as a murder-suicide by the police on the Japanese island, where the presence of United States military forces has long been a source of tension.
Japan Is Among the Hardest Countries for Working Mothers. These Families Want to Change That.
Men in Japan do fewer hours of domestic work than in any other wealthy nation. Mothers and fathers there told us how they’ve managed to buck the norm.
Japan Finds Wreckage From F-35 Fighter Jet, but Pilot Is Still Missing
The warplane disappeared during a training exercise over the waters east of Japan’s largest island.
Catholic Leaders in Japan to Conduct Survey on Sexual Abuse
The leader of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan shared the plan during a gathering in Tokyo of men who said they had been abused by members of the clergy as children.
Will Naomi Osaka Pick Japanese Citizenship or American? Her Deadline to Choose Is Looming
Under Japanese law the tennis superstar must soon pick between her American and Japanese nationalities. Her choice comes as Japan is under pressure to loosen its longstanding insularity.