A total of 38 "confidential births," in which women with unplanned pregnancies give birth after only revealing their ...

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A small rooftop room at a hospital heavily damaged in the 1945 Great Tokyo Air Raid will be preserved as a relic of the ...

A Japanese court punished a U.S. Navy contractor a six-month suspended sentence for having a small amount of marijuana.

On a per-capita basis, Japan has no shortage of hospital beds. Yet, thousands of individuals with COVID-19 are self-isolating at home or hotels with little access to treatment as hospitals remain ...

It's not just Osaka University Hospital that is struggling with a shortage of anesthesiologists. The problem exists nationwide and that is reflected in Japan's low take-up rate for epidurals.

Japanese media, citing unnamed police sources, reported that the hostage-taker in the post office, which is about 2.5km (1.5 miles) from the hospital, was also the suspect from the hospital shooting.

KUMAMOTO--The head of Jikei Hospital here is calling on Japan to establish a legal framework for confidential births to protect the safety of the babies and their mothers. “If mothers are ...