Patient recovering well after iPS heart sheet surgery in Japan
OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A woman treated for severe heart failure with a cardiac muscle sheet derived from induced pluripotent stem cells is recovering well a
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OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A woman treated for severe heart failure with a cardiac muscle sheet derived from induced pluripotent stem cells is recovering well a

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YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- Garbage collectors in a Japanese city on Wednesday began riding electric kick scooters to move around collection sites on a trial
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Warm air associated with a high-pressure system spread over eastern and western Japan, pushing temperatures higher along the Pacific coast on Oct. 21.
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Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi marked one year in office on Oct. 21. She set sail from the dire position of a ruling bloc that lacked a majorit
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (Kyodo) -- Japan successfully defended its men's team title Tuesday at the artistic gymnastics world championships, securing qu
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The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition held a commemorative event in the city of Osaka on October 13, one year after the end of Expo 2025
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Bank of Japan will decide at its policy meeting next week whether the underlying inflation rate has reached its 2 percent target,
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