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Reference | EXPLAINER May 22, 2017

The art, and fallout, of the Japanese political gaffe

by Tomohiro Osaki

If there is one way you can count on Japanese politicians, it is their ability to make headlines by putting their foot in their mouth. Time and again, high-profile politicians and Cabinet ministers have placed their careers in jeopardy over slips of the tongue, misstatements ...

Reference | EXPLAINER May 15, 2017

Medical big data to be pooled for disease research and drug development in Japan

by Tomoko Otake

Last month a bill aimed at facilitating medical research through the use of patient records stored at medical institutions cleared the Diet. The law, commonly called Jisedai Iryo-kiban Ho — roughly translated as the next-generation medical infrastructure law — will allow medical big data to ...