New film pushes Japan to confront a wartime taboo
Tokyo Letter: Gift of Fire tells the story of Japan’s efforts to build a nuclear bomb
Bayer buys BlueRock in $600m bet on stem cell therapies
Company is stepping up investment to revive its drug development pipeline
Nobel prize for medicine won by cancer researchers
Two immunologists win award for work on a new approach to cancer treatment
How human cells can be reprogrammed to renew our bodies
Scientists hope to use pluripotent stem cells to replace organs that have failed
Japan’s crime problem? Too many police, not enough criminals
Tokyo Letter: As they run out of things to do, officers are becoming more inventive
How would you feel about a robot reading your child a bedtime story?
Today’s children will interact with artificial intelligence in many ways over their lives
Spectacular sight as Sakurajima volcano erupts in Japan
Nearby nuclear power plant believed unaffected after ‘explosive eruption’
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