Nihon University in Tokyo on June 3 appointed award-winning novelist Mariko Hayashi as board chair, a post that was vacated ...

BitSummit, the global indie game festival, has kicked off to great success in Kyoto, Japan. Among the many titles on display, ...

Researchers at Kyoto University and Tohoku University have developed a new porous polymer gel that selectively recognizes ...

In 1941, when the Japanese government was salvaging metal from wherever it could for the looming Pacific War, the nation’s ...

Immune cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells that are genetically modified to produce two specific proteins simultaneously can improve the therapeutic effect against solid ...

Shoko Kawata, the 35-year-old mayor of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, plans to take maternity leave as she is due to give birth ...

A mayor in Kyoto Prefecture said Thursday that she will take maternity leave starting this summer. Shoko Kawata, the ...

A wooden satellite sounds like something from a children’s book. But Japan has already sent one into orbit for a very serious reason. Space is getting crowded, more satellites are being launched, and ...

A collaborative research team from Kanazawa University and Kyoto University reports the successful visualization of how densely assembled macrocyclic host molecules cooperatively capture guest ...

The mayor of Hachiman, Kyoto Prefecture, said Thursday that she will go on maternity leave this summer, becoming the first sitting head of a municipality in Japan to do so.

New research by an international team of scientists finds that fully phasing out fossil fuels worldwide by 2050 would require ...