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Japan
(cosmetic surgery • health • law • medicine)

New dietary supplement from Japan will make your farts smell “like a flower garden”【Video】

Philip Kendall
Apr 1, 2016

Because when your ad contains the line “It’s like cherry blossom comes out of your ass hole!” you know it’s going to be a game-changer.

Japan
(dietary supplement • Farts • flatulence • Japan • medicine • nonara • sakura • smell • spring • wtf)

A Japanese doctor’s 10 tips for proper medical care

Meg Murphy
Nov 19, 2015

With the world’s knowledge quite literally at our fingertips, the sheer amount of information available to us can be overwhelming. With the ability to look up anything from recipes to diagnostics and treatments for diseases at the touch of a button, how are we to know what to believe?

A doctor’s office in Japan has posted a list of 10 tips to help patients weed through all the falsities in order to make the best decisions about their medical care.

Japan
(10 tips • advice • health • Japanese doctors • Japanese hospitals • medicine)

Osaka doctor wins Ig Nobel Prize for discovering kisses can reduce allergic reactions

Master Blaster
Sep 22, 2015

Japan has had a pretty good track record with the annual Ig Nobel Prize. Scientists from all over the country have been awarded for nine years straight for their contributions to wacky and humorous research. Last year, Professor Kiyoshi Mabuchi recieved the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for determining exactly how slippery a banana peel on the floor is.

Now, Dr. Hajime Kimata of the Osaka Prefecture Neyagawa Allergy Clinic has been given the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine. However, rather than investigating a silly topic, Dr. Kimata’s findings were actually rather sweet: Kissing can reduce a person’s allergic reactions.

Global, Japan
(allergies • health • Ig Nobel Prize • kissing • medicine • science)

Things you won’t believe Chinese tourists are buying in Japan: drugstore edition

KK Miller
Jul 15, 2015

Often when you visit another country, one thing on everyone’s to-do list is a little shopping. It’s always interesting to see what products a foreign country offers that you can’t find back home. It’s also weird and fun to see the products you are familiar with presented in a different way.

One of the main reasons Chinese tourists visit Japan is to shop. It’s not uncommon to see a Chinese visitor enter a store and drop the equivalent of hundreds of U.S. dollars – usually in cash – on seemingly everyday products like clothes or electronics, but in some cases store shelves are picked completely clean.

But what’s on these tourists’ shopping lists? Here are 11 “godly” pharmacy products that Chinese visitors simply have to buy when they visit Japan.

China, Japan
(drugstores • medicine • shopping • souvenir • tourism • travel)

Natto allergy is caused by jellyfish stings, says surprising Japanese study

Fran W
May 27, 2015

Surfers could be at greater risk of developing an allergy to natto, a Japanese study has found. And the unlikely culprit is thought to be jellyfish stings.

Natto, the sticky fermented soy beans that are as as polarising as Marmite, is a traditional and common Japanese food. Allergy to natto is rare, but research from Yokohama City University Hospital suggests it could be more prevalent in people who spend a lot of time in the water and have been repeatedly stung by jellyfish.

Japan
(allergies • food allergy • Japanese food • jellyfish • marine sports • medicine • natto • study • Yokohama)

What do you eat when you catch a cold? We asked 11 of our Japanese reporters

Krista Rogers
Apr 1, 2015

The answer to the question “What do you eat when you catch a cold?” is probably different depending on where you live in the world. For me, nursing a cold conjures up images of sitting in bed wrapped in blankets and sipping chicken noodle soup.

But we were curious to know which foods and other remedies are commonly consumed in Japan when someone gets sick, so we asked 11 of our colleagues over at the Japanese edition of RocketNews24 and our sister site Pouch to share what they eat when the sniffles start creeping up on them. Think you can guess how they answered? Some of their responses might surprise you!