JAPAN

Japan tries AI matchmaking

Michael Cook | 13 December 2020 | Comments

tags: ai, fertility, japan

Another desperate attempt to raise the country’s fertility rate

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Japan suicides spike during pandemic

Michael Cook | 06 December 2020 | Comments

tags: coronavirus, japan, suicide

Women have been disproportionately affected

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Japan’s new PM promotes IVF to boost birth rate

Michael Cook | 31 October 2020 | Comments

tags: ivf, japan

The rapidly ageing population and falling number of births is a “national crisis”

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The tide turns in the international surrogacy market

Michael Cook | 15 August 2020 | Comments

tags: japan, surrogacy

Now it’s Japanese and Chinese who are the exploiters

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Japan apologises for the sterilization of 25,000 citizens

Xavier Symons | 27 April 2019 | Comments

tags: eugenics, japan, law, sterilisation

The sterilisations took place under the auspices of the country's Eugenic Protection Law.

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Japan set to allow gene editing of human embryos

Xavier Symons | 05 October 2018 | Comments

tags: embryo research, gene editing, japan

An expert panel released new guidelines late last month.

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Japanese committee recommends no regulation for some gene editing

Xavier Symons | 25 August 2018 | Comments

tags: crispr, european union, gene editing, japan, us

Switching off genes is different from adding them, say experts.

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Why are there so few women doctors in Japan? Now we know

Michael Cook | 17 August 2018 | Comments

tags: japan, medical school admissions

Tokyo Medical University systematically marked women down in entrance exams

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Killer Japanese nurse says end of life care was “tough”

Xavier Symons | 21 July 2018 | Comments

tags: japan, murder, nurses

The nurse has confessed to killing at least 20 patients.

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Will IVF turn around Japan’s declining population?

Michael Cook | 09 June 2018 | Comments

tags: ivf, japan

“No country resorts to IVF more than Japan—or has less success”

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Thai court grants Japanese man custody of 13 surrogate children

Xavier Symons | 24 February 2018 | Comments

tags: commercial surrogacy, japan, law, reproductive revolution, surrogacy, thailand

An extraordinary commercial surrogacy court case has come to a close.

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First compensation claim for compulsory sterilisation in Japan

Michael Cook | 27 January 2018 | Comments

tags: compulsory sterilisation, eugenics, japan

A reminder of a dark eugenic past

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Japanese grant residency to AI chatbot

Xavier Symons | 11 November 2017 | Comments

tags: ai, japan, transhumanism

A chatbot programmed to be a seven-year-old boy has been granted residency in Tokyo, Japan.

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5% of Japanese babies from IVF

Michael Cook | 23 September 2017 | Comments

tags: ivf, japan

With the birth rate so low, the government is grasping at straws

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19 intellectually disabled murdered in Japan

Michael Cook | 06 August 2016 | Comments

tags: disability, eugenics, japan

Killer wanted to reduce the burden on society