Get out of bed if you are not asleep in 20 minutes. That rule belongs to CBT-I, which a University of Tokyo analysis puts at 41% remission against 28% for pills. Japan covered it in June 2026, after rejecting it in 2024.

1 million units on day one, 10 million for the series. Capcom's own sales list has the three PS2 Onimusha games at 1.52 to 2.10 million lifetime, and the habit of borrowing movie stars' faces goes back to 2001.

Yamanashi and Riken researchers cut out the whole Y chromosome to make female clones of male mice. Read next to the same university's finding that cloning dies at 58 generations, and Osaka's eggs from male cells.

A 50-stop organ built by 18th-century methods has been finished at a Yamazaki Baking hall near Tokyo. It takes five people to sound right, at a moment when Japan's public halls are struggling to keep theirs.

A 10 mm jellyfish rewound itself ten times in two years. A genome paper on about 1,000 genes cast it as nature's Yamanaka reprogramming; a US researcher attacked that premise with Japanese data it never cited.

A PNAS study rebuilt the songs of 9 extinct species from 20 fossils in Inner Mongolia. The 5 to 7 kHz result lands in the same band as Japan's 4.5 kHz bell cricket, listened to for 1,000 years.

Megane Fes 2026 takes over Sabae on September 19 and 20. Fukui makes 93.5% of Japan's eyeglass frames, and according to the Fukui Optical Association the town produced the world's first titanium glasses in 1983.

Sushi shop bankruptcies in Japan rose 45.5% in the first half of 2026, yet only 18.8% were losing money, the lowest in Teikoku Databank's 20 years. They are not failing. They close because nobody takes over.

A team from Osaka, Okayama and Tokyo has found why IgG antibodies outlast IgM. After mRNA vaccination, spike-specific cells were 0.14% of the long-lived bone marrow compartment, against 7.3% for influenza.