A 71-year-old Japanese man became the oldest person to summit Mt. Everest.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry predicted that 19 Japanese prefectures can expect a 20 percent drop in population by 2035 thanks to the declining birthrate.
A team of researchers in Kobe reported that they successfully cultivated human embryonic cells on a mass scale, a feat that had previously only been achieved using stem cells from mice.
Director Naomi Kawase’s film Mogari No Mori (The Mourning Forest), a drama about the relationship between a nursing home resident and his caregiver, won the runner-up prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Japan’s unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent, the lowest since 1998.
Shops in Tokyo began selling seafood with a blue label indicating it had been caught in accordance with standards developed to protect fisheries and ocean ecosystems.
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