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Japanese scientists grow sheet of heart muscle cells for world’s first general-patient ReHeart-ing

• Master Blaster
  Oct 2, 2026
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Patient had a new piece of her own heart attached to her old one.

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• Japan
• (COK • health • heart disease • ips cells • medicine • ReHeart • science • Surgery • Yoshiki Sawa)

You can now get paid 5,000 yen for your poop in Japan, but only if your poop is good enough

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 25, 2025

They say you should never do something for free if you’re good enough at it to get paid, and apparently that applies to making stool too.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • funny • gross • health • medicine • poo • poop • science • stool • weird)

Humans are horrible at healing, according to Japanese researchers

• Master Blaster
  Jun 16, 2025

This news cuts deep and apparently will take a long time to heal.

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• Japan
• (apes • baboons • chimpanzees • healing • health • humans • medicine • monkeys • primates • science • The University of The Ryukyus)

Sound that alleviates motion sickness found by Nagoya University team

• Master Blaster
  Apr 19, 2025

He who controls the Spice Sound controls his tummy.

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• Japan
• (cool • health • medicine • motion sickness • Nagoya University • science • sound • Spice Sound • wellness)

Smoking marijuana is now illegal in Japan, can get you 7 years in prison

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 13, 2024

New Cannabis Control Act rules loosen some restrictions while adding a new one.

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• Japan
• (cannabis • Cannabis Control Act • COK • crime • Drugs • marijuana • medicine • society)

Nerunerunerune candy designed for taking medicine wins top honors at product awards

• Master Blaster
  Jan 9, 2024

A spoonful of Nerunerunerune helps the medicine go dowowowown.

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• Japan
• (candy • clever • food • Kracie • medicine • Nerunerunerune • Nikkei Excellent Products and Services Awards • Okusuri Pakutto Neruneru • sweets)

Kyoto University finds alpacas may hold the key to preventing all COVID-19 variants

• Master Blaster
  Jul 16, 2022

I can feel my immunity rise just looking at these little guys.

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• Japan
• (alpacas • animals • antibodies • COK • coronavirus • COVID-19 • cute • health • Kyoto University • medicine • science)

We make pills the old-fashioned way in Japan’s former medicine capital, Toyama Prefecture

• Katie Pask
  May 24, 2022

Our Japanese reporter adds ‘making drugs‘ to her SoraNews24 resume.

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• Japan
• (COK • culture • history • medicine • SNJO • Toyama • Toyama Prefecture • travel)

Street Fighter Chun-Li now appearing on free prescription record notebooks at Japanese pharmacies

• Casey Baseel
  May 12, 2022

Strongest woman in the world wants you to be the healthiest person in Japan.

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• Japan
• (Capcom • Chun-Li • health • medicine • medicine notebook • okusuri techo • Pharmacies • Street Fighter • video games)

Here’s what happens when you take medicine and supplements for baldness for two years straight

• Dale Roll
  Jan 24, 2022

Our reporter shows before and after photos that are quite impressive!

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• Japan
• (balding • baldness • beauty • Go Hatori • hair • hair treatments • medical treatment • medicine)

Self-screening urine test for depression and other mental illness developed in Japan

• Master Blaster
  Aug 16, 2021

Urine for a mental health screening.

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• Japan
• (COK • medicine • mental health • mental illness • Morioka • society • treatment)

Japanese government to ease prohibition of cannabis-derived medicines

• Casey Baseel
  May 14, 2021

Relaxed regulation may be coupled with new criminalization, though.

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• Japan
• (cannabis • COK • crime • Drugs • marijuana • medicine • scoiety)

Study indicates Nintendo Ring Fit Adventure helps alleviate chronic low back pain in adults

• Dale Roll
  May 13, 2021

Who knew playing video games could be therapeutic for your body as well as your mind?

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• Global
• (back pain • exercise • exergaming • medicine • nintendo • nintendo switch • RingFit Adventure • study • video games)

Life saved in Tottori, Japan by same skin transplant treatment used for Kyoto Animation arsonist

• Ingrid Tsai
  Apr 25, 2021

Individual whose life was saved now in stable condition.

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• Japan
• (burn treatment • COK • Kyoto Animation arson attack • medicine • science)

Coronavirus vaccinations finally begin in Japan【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 18, 2021

Eight inoculation centers begin administering shots as first vaccine shipment arrives in the country.

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • health • medicine • pandemic • vaccination • vaccine)

Japan to begin administering coronavirus vaccine next week

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 11, 2021

Syringe problem likely to keep process from being as fast as it could be, though.

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• Japan
• (COK • coronavirus • COVID-19 • health • medicine • pandemic • vaccination • vaccine)

Medical university in Tokushima honors student for his gaming

• Master Blaster
  Nov 27, 2020

And I have yet to hear from my alma mater…

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• Japan
• (education • esports • gaming • gaming addiction • medicine • Tokushima • university • video games • Winning Eleven)

Japan’s amazing healthcare system summed up in photo of hospital bill for father’s heart surgery

• Scott Wilson
  Sep 27, 2020

“I am so thankful for our medical system. Terrifying to think what it’d be like without it.”

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• Japan
• (health insurance • hospital bills • Insurance • medical treatment • medicine)

Kyoto Animation arsonist’s treatments yield major advancement in skin transplantation

• Master Blaster
  Sep 9, 2020

At least he hasn’t been a complete waste of oxygen this whole time.

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• Japan
• (arson • burn treatment • crime • Kyoto Animation • Kyoto Animation arson attack • medicine • science • Shinji Aoba • skin transplant)

Our balding reporter tries to fix his male pattern baldness with medications and topical sprays

• Dale Roll
  Jun 8, 2020

And here’s a half-year report of how his hair is doing!

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• Japan
• (balding • baldness • beauty • clear Coke • COK • Go Hatori • hair • hair treatments • medicine • SNJO)

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