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Health minister Kenichiro Ueno speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 24, 2026
91²Ö¿â health minister calls for measles vaccinations
According to the minister, 299 measles cases were reported between Jan. 1 and April 12, already exceeding the total figure for 2025.
Japan is seeing the number of measles cases rise this year, with a total of 299 recorded as of early April.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 22, 2026
Measles cases rise in Japan with 299 reported this year
The total as of early April already surpassed the 265 cases recorded for all of last year.
The Japan Pediatric Society is urging people to check their vaccination records and to consider receiving measles shots if they are found to have been unvaccinated.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 18, 2026
Japan on track to log highest number of measles cases since COVID-19 pandemic
About half of patients are age 10 to 29, and the Japan Pediatric Society is calling on people to get vaccinated.
The health ministry in Tokyo¡¯s Chiyoda Ward. Japan has seen a total of 100 confirmed measles cases so far this year.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 18, 2026
Japan raises alarm over recent measles outbreaks in Tokyo and other cities
Tokyo announced Tuesday that a total of nine people, all males in their 20s working for the same eating and drinking venue, had been infected.
A recent fast-moving measles outbreak in South Carolina highlights how declining vaccination rates, permissive state laws and weakened federal vaccine oversight under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are creating larger, harder-to-control outbreaks across the U.S.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 9, 2026
South Carolina¡¯s measles milestone is everyone¡¯s problem
It¡¯s the latest public health record to be broken as vaccine hesitancy and increasingly permissive state laws create more and larger pockets of disease vulnerability in the U.S.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addresses the inaugural Make America Healthy Again summit in Washington on Nov. 12.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2025
Is America next after Canada to lose its measles elimination status?
In normal times, Canada¡¯s misfortune might serve as a wake-up call for public health leaders in the U.S., which is precariously close to losing its own measles-free status.
A measles alert sign is posted outside the entrance to the Cohen Children's Medical Center in New York in March.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2025
¡®Alternative facts¡¯ aren't a reason to skip vaccines
Donald Trump¡¯s health officials have been endorsing alternative facts in science to impose policies that contradict modern medical knowledge.
Senate Republicans must undo their reckless confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, whose anti-vaccine crusade is fueling a deadly measles outbreak and putting more Americans at risk.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2025
RFK Jr. is making America sick again. Republicans need a cure.
Kennedy, who has no training in medicine or health, has long been the nation¡¯s foremost peddler of junk science and the crackpot conspiracy theories that flow from it.
A sign directs people to a measles testing center in Gaines County, Texas, on Tuesday. A measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico is sparking fears of worsening public health crisis in the United States.?
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 27, 2025
Texas measles outbreak was entirely avoidable
"It¡¯s more contagious than COVID, more contagious than the flu, more contagious than Ebola,¡± says Paul Offit, of Philadelphia's Vaccine Education Center.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 22, 2024
Japan urges priority for children as demand for measles shots spikes
Recent outbreaks in the country have led to a surge in interest in the vaccine among unvaccinated adults who haven't been infected with the disease.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 12, 2024
Health ministry urges caution after measles outbreak
Eight cases have been confirmed among passengers of a flight from the United Arab Emirates that landed at Kansai International Airport in late February.
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 25, 2023
Small measles outbreak in Japan raises alarm
The most recent infections appear to have happened to strangers riding the same shinkansen for less than three hours.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 16, 2023
Two cases of measles confirmed in Tokyo
The health minister urged people with no history of vaccination against measles to consider getting inoculated.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2022
COVID disrupted measles vaccinations in Africa and now cases are surging
After what health experts call the biggest backslide in a generation, 26 large or disruptive measles outbreaks have sprung up worldwide.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Dec 29, 2019
Samoa ends six-week state of emergency over measles
The South Pacific island nation of Samoa has lifted a six week-state of emergency after the infection rate from a measles outbreak that has swept the country started to come under control.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 6, 2019
WHO slams 'collective failure' as measles killed 140,000, mostly kids, in 2018
Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 17, 2019
Samoa declares state of emergency over measles
Samoa has declared a state of emergency, closing all schools and cracking down on public gatherings, after several deaths linked to a measles outbreak that has spread across the Pacific islands.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 29, 2019
Measles cases worldwide have tripled this year, WHO says
Every region in the world, except the Americas, is experiencing an increase in the number of cases of measles, a vaccine-preventable disease that can kill or disable children, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2019
People involved with Tokyo Olympics to be encouraged to get measles and rubella vaccinations
The government has put together a program to tackle infectious diseases ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, including a plan to encourage those involved in the event to get measles and rubella vaccinations.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 11, 2019
U.S. measles outbreak spreads to Idaho and Virginia, hitting 1,022 cases
The worst U.S. measles outbreak in a quarter-century spread to Idaho and Virginia last week as public health authorities on Monday reported 41 new cases of the highly contagious and sometimes deadly disease.
Magnitude 6.2 quake shakes Hokkaido
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake, measuring an upper 5 on Japan¡¯s seismic intensity scale, struck Hokkaido before 5:30 a.m. on Monday.
Beyond the hub-and-spoke: Japan quietly emerges as a secondary connector
Commander of the Ground Self-Defense Force's Amphibious Rapid Deployment, Maj. Gen. Toshikatsu Musha, and commander of the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Amphibious and Mine Warfare Force, Rear Adm. Ikeuchi Izuru, attend the opening ceremony of the U.S.-Philippines Balikatan joint military exercises, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, on April 20.
The language around Japan¡¯s new bike rules leaves no room for ¡®maybe¡¯
Under the new blue ticket system, cyclists will have one week in which to pay fines for minor traffic violations.
China holds live-fire drills in waters near Luzon as Japan joins military exercises in Philippines
Head of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Chief of Staff Romeo Brawner Jr., speaks during the opening ceremony of the U.S.-Philippines Balikatan joint military exercises, at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, Metro Manila, on Monday.
Laps of icy roads in China show sodium batteries making an EV breakthrough
A CATL sodium-ion battery model.
The American chef reconnecting with Japan through a Kyoto restaurant
Located in Kyoto¡¯s historic geisha district, the SoNoMa experience begins in the front room of the restaurant, where guests are served a welcome drink and a trio of small bites.
Hokusai¡¯s erotic art on display at a Kabukicho noh theater
¡°The Dream of the Fisherman¡¯s Wife,¡± a rarely exhibited print by Hokusai, will be on display at the Shinjuku Kabukicho Noh Theater for a limited time, from May 1 to 10.?
Inkonbini: Slice-of-life, cozy gaming from Japan¡¯s convenience stores
Alongside the simplified management of a convenience store, Inkonbini asks players to help a small cast of regular shoppers with not only their shopping but problems in their personal lives.
Japanese developers worry over construction supply shortages amid Iran war
Paul Nikel, President of West Canada Homes, with an increasingly rare supply of plastic foam
Professional sumo awaits three potential new stars
Bill Christopher Li, now known as Honoikazuchi, at the All-Japan championships at the Kokugikan on Nov. 30

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