Japan saw nearly 1 million more deaths than births in 2024, marking the country’s steepest single-year population decline since the government surveys began nearly six decades ago. In 2009, Japan’s ...

Despite the United Nations calling on Japan to abolish the death penalty, an overwhelming majority of the Japanese population ...

BANGKOK: Japan has recorded over 76,000 solitary deaths as ageing and social isolation deepen, while Thailand faces rising ...

Despite an annual warning from authorities, a deadly New Year's trend continued in Japan this week as two people died after choking on mochi — a doughy cake made from steamed sweet rice that is ...

About 20 deaths linked to serious liver dysfunction have been reported in Japan in patients treated with Amgen's rare disease drug Tavneos, according to a safety notice issued by partner Kissei ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ago, an elderly woman hanged herself in the bathroom and ...

The Japanese drugmaker that sells rare-disease medicine Tavneos said new patients will be able to get the drug, which carries ...

Sales of the problematic Amgen Inc. drug Tavneos resumed late last week in Japan with a new warning label after several ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Hideko Hakamada campaigned for almost six decades to get her little brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, cleared. But at 92 she refuses to relax, campaigning against ...