At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo(bbc.com)

62 points by saikatsg 5 months ago | 19 comments

Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities(bbc.com)

92 points by tchalla 2 months ago | 117 comments

'Unprecedented' alerts in France as blistering heat grips Europe(bbc.com)

11 points by julosflb 1 year ago | 3 comments

Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100(bbc.com)

307 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 178 comments

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C(bbc.com)

541 points by stevekemp 2 months ago | 383 comments

BBC News article reporting that England is on track to become one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C.

Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone(bbc.com)

362 points by dabinat 2 months ago | 315 comments

BBC News article reporting that scientists found notable improvements in children's lung health within London's ultra low emission zone.

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners(aljazeera.com)

120 points by mikhael 1 month ago | 323 comments

Al Jazeera article on Japan raising requirements for permanent residency and tightening rules for foreigners amid a rightward political shift.

Why Japanese companies do so many different things(davidoks.blog)

828 points by d0ks 5 months ago | 386 comments

A Substack essay by David Oks explaining the internal logic behind why Japanese corporations diversify into so many unrelated businesses.

Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why(sciencefocus.com)

22 points by baranul 10 days ago | 32 comments

BBC Science Focus news article reporting that around 1 in 10 Japanese people reach their 30s without having had sex, and that the causes remain unclear.

Climate is accumulating 4 Hiroshima atomic bombs worth of heat per second(4hiroshimas.info)

35 points by blondie9x 27 days ago | 31 comments

A site with an embeddable widget showing Earth's accumulated heat since 1998, expressed as roughly four Hiroshima atomic bombs' worth of heat per second.

Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again(finance.yahoo.com)

401 points by jonbaer 2 years ago | 211 comments

Bloomberg article syndicated on Yahoo Finance about Japan spending $67 billion in subsidies to rebuild its semiconductor industry.

Japan's push to make all research open access(nature.com)

612 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 92 comments

Nature news article on Japan allocating 10 billion yen to institutional repositories to make the nation's publicly funded research free to read.