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Scandal-hit Kobayashi Pharmaceutical said on Friday that a chemical compound naturally made by blue mold may have been the cause of the health damage linked to its beni kо̄ji (red yeast rice) dietary supplements — now linked to five deaths and 114 hospitalizations — and also apologized for its poor response to reports of those problems.
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical’s growing scandal over its red yeast supplements has reignited debate on Japan’s “functional food” labels, which have been criticized for years over the lack of sufficient scientific proof of safety and efficacy accompanying their use.
As the political slush fund scandal that has shaken the ruling Liberal Democratic Party drags on, debates on political reform will likely dominate the second half of the current parliamentary session now that the ¥112.57 trillion ($744 billion) budget has cleared both chambers.
Two former employees at the now-defunct talent agency Johnny & Associates, whose founder had sexually assaulted performers for decades, also engaged in such abuse, Smile-Up said Thursday.
Japan’s market for supplements has been steadily expanding over the past few years following rising health awareness after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fukui District Court on Friday rejected petitions to suspend aging nuclear reactors at two Kansai Electric Power (Kepco) plants in Fukui Prefecture.
Cherry blossoms finally burst into bloom in Tokyo on Friday after heavy rain in the morning, marking the latest blooming in over a decade.
Thailand took the first step toward legalizing casinos, as the government looks to attract high-spending tourists to support Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy while also checking revenue leak from illegal gambling.
When a French minister compared Italy's nationalist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni last year to the leader of the French far right, the Italian premier rang French President Emmanuel Macron to complain.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department conducted searches at Tokyo Women's Medical University in the capital's Shinjuku Ward and related institutions on Friday, on suspicions that the university’s alumni association, Shiseikai, paid salaries to employees who were not actually working at the university.
Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has dismissed the idea that China is unable to become a multiparty democracy, saying there is no "anti-democratic” instinct in the Chinese people.
Members of Japan's public medical insurance system will be charged an average fee of ¥450 ($3) a month per person in fiscal 2028 to finance measures to fight the country's dwindling birthrate, government estimates showed Friday.
The government on Friday added four new industries to its foreign skilled worker visa program as it moves to address the nation's driver shortage by allowing more people access to stays of up to five years.
Japanese monetary authorities made a last-minute decision to reschedule an emergency meeting to discuss the weak yen. Originally scheduled for Thursday, the meeting will now take place on Wednesday to maximize the impact of arresting a sharper fall of the yen, a source with knowledge of the matter said.
Regions far away from the Tokyo metropolitan area and other urban districts will likely be hit particularly hard by Japan's so-called 2024 problem, or possible logistics service disruptions reflecting a truck driver shortage due to new overtime regulations starting in April.
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical said Friday that it has confirmed a fifth death linked to its beni kо̄ji red yeast rice dietary supplements.
X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on "adult content” or other "not safe for work” material.
In India, higher educated young people are more likely to be unemployed than those without any schooling, according to the International Labour Organization.
Chinese companies are staring at the prospects of a drought of new equity capital as tougher domestic IPO rules and challenges in listing overseas severely curb their fundraising, putting at risk the floundering economy's recovery.
The global cocoa market is buckling under the strain of unprecedented shortages.
Amazon plans to spend almost $150 billion in the coming 15 years on data centers, giving the cloud-computing giant the firepower to handle an expected explosion in demand for artificial intelligence applications and other digital services.
Japan is slowly and inexorably unshackling its defense industries.
Russia on Thursday blocked the renewal of a panel of U.N. experts monitoring international sanctions on North Korea, weeks after the body said it was investigating reports of arms transfers between Moscow and Pyongyang.
Consumer price growth in Tokyo moderated in March but stayed well above the central bank’s inflation target, keeping authorities on track to consider more interest increases after they hiked earlier this month for the first time since 2007.
Parliament on Thursday enacted a ¥112.57 trillion ($744 billion) budget for the fiscal year starting April 1, the second-largest, to better respond to security threats and demographic challenges, ease the pain of inflation and rebuild earthquake-hit areas.