U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass, who assumed his position in April, contributed an opinion piece to the Mainichi ...

“Just as we recognize that diet plays a role in conditions like heart disease or diabetes, we now understand that food choices can affect brain function, mood, and mental health disorders ...

Father and Child Cohort Study were used to assess diet quality using a Healthy Eating Index and intake frequency of food groups. IBD was defined as >2 diagnoses in national patient registers. Cox ...

Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the ...

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This study provides an overview of patient backgrounds, management patterns, and prognoses of Japanese patients with acute heart failure using data from modern large‐scale registries. We demonstrated ...

According to Astrid Fuchs, whaling program manager for the U.K.-based nonprofit Whale and Dolphin Conservation, who spoke to National Geographic before the news was confirmed, Japan’s withdrawal ...

Objective: Little is known about whether economic crises widen health inequalities. Japan experienced more than 10 years of economic recession beginning in the 1990s. The question of whether ...

As a result, the balance of government bonds, basically the national ... Japan's domestic gross product. The rate is by far and away the highest among industrialized nations. In spite of this ...

Japan's Diet has passed into law a revised bill that includes the creation of a new government fund to bolster the country's capacity to develop new drugs. Japanese-made drugs have been losing ...

The Main Building of the National Diet Library is seen in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward in 2022. (Mainichi/Naoki Watanabe) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some questions readers may have about the National ...