Japan Today

21 hours ago | japantoday.com | Irene Wang

Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife. While scientists have long experimented with biodegradable plastics, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and the University of Tokyo say their new material breaks down much more quickly and leaves no residual trace.

1 day ago | japantoday.com | Amanda Seitz |Mike Stobbe

There was a notable absence last week when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr announced in a 58-second video that the government would no longer endorse the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children or pregnant women. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the person who typically signs off on federal vaccine recommendations — was nowhere to be seen.

2 days ago | japantoday.com | Foster Klug

Images from the election of South Korea's new president, liberal Lee Jae-myung, are everything you’d expect to see in one of the world’s most vibrant democracies. Peaceful. Orderly.

4 days ago | japantoday.com | Claire Rush

A man was arrested on suspicion of stabbing multiple people at a homeless shelter Sunday night, injuring 12 people and sending 11 to the hospital. Five men who were still in the hospital Monday with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after the stabbing attack at the Union Gospel Mission, Deputy Chief Treven Upkes said.

4 days ago | japantoday.com | Oona McGee

Out of all the animated movies Studio Ghibli has ever produced, "Porco Ross" remains one of the most underrated. The tale of a pig who flies planes sadly missed its mark with some audience-goers, but for director Hayao Miyazaki, whose been known to depict himself as a pig, it remains a firm favorite — so much so that we can imagine a smile fluttering over his face if he were to see this sweet sake set that honors the film.