Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and ...

Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...

Honke Tankuma Honten is expensive. According to its website, the 11-course menu is 33,000 yen (£175) per person. Kyoto is not ...

Etiquette experts advise keeping shoes on during flights, especially in emergency rows. Imagine settling into your economy ...

There's a sensation that you experience -- near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert -- from a sound so total ...

KYOTO—Researchers have safely transplanted nerve cells generated from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into the brains of ...

To optimists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report was a relief: 2030 still seemed enough time for humanity ...

Induced pluripotent stem cells are being tested to treat blindness, paralysis, Parkinson’s disease and more. Approvals might ...

Ernesto Borges Perez, a former Cuban counterintelligence officer, is out of prison after serving 27 years in Havana.

For shorter flights, etiquette experts advise keeping shoes on, while longer flights allow for shoe removal if feet are ...

“If you are seated in the emergency exit row, your shoes should always be on,” she says. “You have elected to take on the ...

Following on from previous work from 2018, a team of researchers at Kyoto University have been inspired by research in ...