Japan does not have the lowest death rate for Covid-19 - in the region, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam can all boast lower mortality. But in the early part of 2020, Japan saw fewer ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has announced plans to send 25 doctors to China and two doctors to Japan to enhance their skills in treating cardiovascular diseases, which are ...

Finance Minister Taro Aso is taking criticism for controversially attributing Japan’s relatively lower COVID-19 mortality rate to "the superiority of its people." “I often got phone calls from ...

Japanese policymakers are increasingly anxious that the country's birth rate is nearing the point of no return.

male death rates from cancer among high school graduates are about 2.3 times of those among graduates of university and higher education, compared with about 1.1 times in Japan. Researchers said ...

"For that group it (the suicide rate) more than doubled ... I worry the feelings of guilt will grow stronger. Japanese people don't talk about death to begin with. We do not have a culture ...

A record number of cases involving a rare but serious type of bacterial infection is currently spreading across Japan. Known as streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS), its prevalence is alarming ...