A sinkhole in the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, caused by a ruptured underground drainage pipe underscores the growing ...

Around 1.2 million people in Japan have been asked to stop doing laundry and taking showers as rescuers race against time to ...

blamed a lack of dialogue between scientists and policymakers for Japan’s brain drain. Manabe, 90, is seen as a symbol of the Japanese scientists who left the country for a better research ...

Competition is necessary, but treating researchers as disposable will only encourage a brain drain to overseas ... the limited-term employment system last spring. Japan will keep drifting farther ...