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SUITA, Osaka Prefecture--Researchers here succeeded in zapping crop-damaging moths with laser beams, a development that has wide implications for parts of the world that suffer insect infestations.

Whatever success Japanese startup ispace Inc. achieves with its current mission to become the first private-sector company to land a spacecraft on the moon this spring owes to the makeup of the people who work for it.

Researchers are planning a nationwide study into how animals kept at zoos and aquariums contract bacteria that causes gum disease when wild animals are rarely found with any. 

Japanese drugmaker Eisai Co Ltd and U.S. biotech firm Biogen Inc said in a joint statement that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has granted priority review status to their Alzheimer’s disease treatment.

The saliva of patients infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 virus contains a larger number of novel coronavirus particles in a state that is more prone to transmission, a team of Japanese scientists discovered.

Japan’s health ministry is leaning toward approving an abortion pill that will provide women with an alternative to a surgical procedure after an expert panel endorsed the move on Jan. 27.

WASHINGTON--The United States has secured a deal with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chip-making machinery to China in talks that concluded on Friday, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial mound here, unprecedented discoveries of their kind in Japan. 

TOYOOKA, Hyogo Prefecture—Two scuba divers captured rare photos and video of a giant squid slowly plodding along off the coast here and unusually close to the surface.

Greenfield hockey player Matt Lavoine has a flair for the dramatic. It’s not often you get a near buzzer-beater on the ice, but the Green Wave senior captain has done so not just once, but twice in a mere 11 games so far this season. Just before the...