The Japanese and United States governments announced in July a joint declaration for cooperation in the U.S.-led Artemis manned lunar probe project, bringing closer to...
How is Japan getting on in the race towards a vaccine? JAPAN Forward visited leading vaccine research scientist Dr. Ryuichi Morishita on July 6 at his...
Minamitorishima, the easternmost tip of Japan, floats in the Pacific Ocean about 1800 kilometers away from the main island of Honshu. The small island,...
According to research conducted by Japan’s National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), Adélie penguins, the most common species of penguins in Antarctica, tend to have...
Heavy rain has been falling continuously in Kyushu in Southern Japan, as well as Central Japan, for over a week. Why has this happened? ...
The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward recently caught up with Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, to...
The novel coronavirus came into the lives of most people around the world only about six months ago. It has infected more than seven million people...
You might have heard the mantra, “We don’t have time to develop something new, let’s use medicines we already have.” Many academics in Japan...
In early April, the American embassy in Tokyo sent out a health alert, urging its citizens to return to the United States as...
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will launch back into space between September and December 2020 onboard NASA’s new U.S. SpaceX Dragon spacecraft if preparations go smoothly. ...
There is a movement in Japan and the United States to connect supercomputers to study the novel coronavirus, which is raging through the world....
Megaquakes surpassing the strongest ones in Japan’s recorded history could be forthcoming, a string of findings released by Japan’s Cabinet Office on April 21...