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HEALTH

Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 5, 2011
Competition taking a bite out of dentistry schools' tuition schemes
Dentistry schools in cutthroat competition for new students.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 22, 2011
Sniffling and shivering into a setsuden winter
With the winter winds come the usual sniffles and sneezes, but this year's power conservation campaign could makes matters worse.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 30, 2011
Doctors afraid new fee will reduce customers … er, patients
The government wants to add a u00a5100 fee to your medical bills, and doctors are furious.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 11, 2011
Local governments crack down on health insurance scofflaws
As the tax base gets poorer fewer people pay their national health insurance premiums, and local governments are doing something about it.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2011
Beating the midlife blues
Are you feeling down about middle age? Do you find yourself thinking that time is hurtling and you'll never reach your goals — or, perhaps more distressingly, that they don't even fit who you are anymore?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Aug 26, 2011
How about a hot bath ... in sawdust?
Bathing in sawdust joins a long menu of possible salon treatments available in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 29, 2011
The hidden economics of diabetes
Japanese doctors can make a lot of money from the diabetes epidemic.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jun 3, 2011
Massage market targets the next generation
Massages devices are traditionally marketed to the older generation but doesn't everybody hurt?
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
May 26, 2011
'Secret society' takes a national stool sample
A 'secret society' asked the Japanese public to tell them more about their poop. Yes they did.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Feb 21, 2011
Music makes bananas fit for the long run
Yes, Tokyo Marathon runners, we have musically enhanced 'sports bananas.'
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Feb 15, 2011
Can mah-jongg and pachinko parlors clean up their acts?
The clean air campaign targets some of the smokers' last places of refuge — mah-jongg and pachinko parlors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jan 15, 2011
More independent women taking out insurance
The number of women buying life insurance is on the rise. Should we be surprised?
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Dec 3, 2010
Japan by the numbers (12.03.10)
Getting free talk time, finding the perfect man and finally stopping smoking. Find out the numbers behind these lofty ambitions.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Nov 26, 2010
Japan by the numbers (11.26.10)
Find out the numbers behind the stress of everyday life in Japan. Have you ticked off everything on YOUR 2010 to-do list?
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 22, 2010
Japan by the numbers (11.22.10)
This week we toast to your good skincare, personal independence and, of course, the newly arrived Beaujolais Nouveau.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 19, 2010
Anti-virus products diversify as fear sells
Consumers fearing infection have got an arsenal of virus-fighting products at their gloved fingertips.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 5, 2010
Price of mercy can be dear when it comes to transplants
Government policies regarding health insurance coverage of organ transplants aren't exactly making the procedure any easier.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 29, 2010
What's the real cost of quitting?
Smokers who kick the habit are healthy for the economy ... or are they?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 24, 2010
No need to feel sorry for the Incubator babies
Will the fail of the Incubator Bank have a chilling effect on 'high risk-high return' investments? Care to make a wager?
Ishiba delays meeting with Trump, citing legal restrictions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba waves upon arrival for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, in Callao, Peru, on Friday.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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