Japan's deadly fugu fish is becoming more toxic
Fugu, Japan's legendary pufferfish dish, has always been a gamble. But new research suggests the odds are gett
Fugu, Japan's legendary pufferfish dish, has always been a gamble. But new research suggests the odds are gett
In Japan, scientists have clocked the birth of a hidden electronic state inside a material at an astonishing 3
In the heart of one of the world's most crowded megacities, a quiet force is keeping ancient landscapes and th
A fossil collected in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, more than three decades ago has just given up a secret: four bo
Deep beneath the reindeer pastures and dairy farms of Japan's northernmost prefecture, engineers are working o
More than 1,200 Starlink satellites are now doing double duty as a giant scanner for Earth's upper atmosphere.
A tiny wasp that no scientist had ever documented in Japan turned up first in casual photos posted online. The
Giant octopuses once sat at the top of the ocean food chain, long before sharks and whales took over that role
The supervolcano that produced the largest eruption in the last 11,700 years is filling with fresh magma again
A sulfur based molecule may give aging muscles a second wind. Scientists in Japan have identified a compound t
Three fossilized vertebrae sat in a Japanese collection for more than two decades before scientists realized t
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft, which already pulled off a historic sample return from a distant asteroid, is no
A team of scientists in Japan has grown immature human sperm from stem cells by nurturing them inside a living
Water expands when it freezes, a quirk that makes it an outlier among liquids. Now scientists in Japan have us
A Japanese prefecture has started implanting microchips in bears to track their movements as encounters with h
A thin, slippery layer of ancient clay hidden beneath the Pacific Ocean allowed Japan's 2011 earthquake to rup
A Japanese space probe the size of a household refrigerator has flown within a few kilometers of a distant ast