With the COVID-19 continuing to spread like wildfire worldwide, it is not surprising that foreigners living in Japan who have never even visited a doctor...
The governments of Japan and China on March 5 jointly announced the postponement of the state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Japan. The...
Researchers estimate the probability of an earthquake in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years is as high as 70% to 80%.
An Osaka University team’s transplant of pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into a patient suffering from a serious heart malfunction, which was unveiled by the...
Description: Yoshiteru Shichiri, the CEO of System Japan Inc., explains how the “Legame” sensor system works to analyze breathing and other vital data of a senior citizen...
On December 17, 2019, the Toba Aquarium in Toba City, Mie prefecture announced that a Zoantharia coral raised at the aquarium has been recognized as...
As 2019 comes to a close, we at JAPAN Forward are reflecting on the stories that moved Japan this year, and the stories our...
Thanks to you, our dear readers, JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readerships in 2019. Millions of users around the world followed our...
Thanks to you, our dear readers, JAPAN Forward reached new milestones in monthly and daily readerships in 2019. Millions of users around the world followed our...
On Tuesday, December 10, Japanese scientist Akira Yoshino will receive his 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, but he sat...
Japan’s space agency announced that its Hayabusa2 space probe departed from asteroid Ryugu at 10:05 A.M. on November 13, 2019, Japan Time, embarking on its...
Japan’s “Kounotori” H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV) 8, which transports supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), performed a predawn lift-off successfully on September 25, Japan Time....