The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved making the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis available without a prescription, opening the way for its sale as Japan’s first over-the-counter treatment for the condition.
A Japanese team has won the Ig Nobel Prize for the 19th consecutive year, with this year’s Biology Prize awarded to research demonstrating that painting stripes on cows helps repel insects.
A research group including Okayama University of Science announced in the British scientific journal Nature on September 17th that they have discovered the world’s oldest fossil of a pachycephalosaur, a dinosaur recognized for its thick, dome-shaped skull and often called the “headbutting dinosaur.”
Japan has confirmed its first domestic case of a more severe strain of the mpox virus, which has been spreading rapidly in Africa.
Osaka Senshoku Kikai, a small manufacturer in Osaka, has drawn global attention after posting an experiment video showing a red-hot iron ball placed on slime and other materials.
Kyoto University said it has developed a world-first method for generating induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from blood cells, an advance expected to make patient-specific cell lines faster and safer to produce.
A total lunar eclipse was observed across Japan early Monday morning, marking the first such event in about three years. The moon began to darken at around 1:30 a.m., glowing a distinctive copper-red as it entered the Earth’s shadow.
The Japan Meteorological Agency convened an expert panel on Friday to analyze this summer's record-breaking heat. From June to August, the average temperature was significantly higher than last year, which had been the previous record, making it the hottest summer since records began.