Tomoko Otake

As the world endures what could turn out to be the hottest summer on record, it is reckoning with the myriad impacts of that extreme heat.

A group of emergency medicine doctors in Japan has updated a set of treatment guidelines for heatstroke, adding a “most severe” category to the scale for the seriousness of the condition.

As high temperatures make headlines across most of Japan, our homes are warming, too — to the point that some people's bedrooms remain unbearably hot deep into the night and causing them to lose sleep.

Japan is a global leader when it comes to affordable health care — providing access to advanced medical care at a fraction of the cost compared to most developed countries.

When Upper House lawmaker Keizo Takemi was named health minister in the reshuffled Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last September, the

Among the unresolved issues are the risk of previously unknown infectious diseases, animal welfare and the need to protect recipients from discrimination.

across Japan, cases like this woman's are becoming more common. Rising heatstroke cases are weighing on the nation's health care system, which is already wrestling with the growing burden of a rapidly aging population.

Recent typhoons and the Nankai Trough megaquake alert have put the spotlight on how the country would deal with a compound disaster.

The devastating winds of Shanshan were 26% more likely due to climate change, a rapid analysis by Imperial College London has found.

Kyoto University Hospital is looking to develop a treatment for severe Type 1 diabetes using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells reprogrammed to