Tokyo, Jan 25 - Even though the Japanese have the world's highest life expectancy, smoking and high blood pressure (BP) still remain the biggest health hazards, reveals a study.

An analytical study, led by Nayu Ikeda from the University of Tokyo, found that in 2007, tobacco smoking and high BP among adults aged 30 years and above accounted for 129,000 and 104,000 deaths respectively in Japan.

Tokyo, Dec 10: Former Japan's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant chief is suffering from esophageal cancer, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has said.

TEPCO ruled out that Masao Yoshida's cancer was caused due to the nuclear crisis since he was exposed to 70 millisieverts of cumulative amount of radiation since the crisis.

Tokyo, Nov 10 - A fast and reliable new test under development could help people avoid a terrible type of food poisoning that comes from eating fish tainted with a difficult-to-detect toxin from marine algae growing in warm waters.

The researchers say the method out-does current detection methods. Besides helping diagnose patients, it will also help scientists study how the toxins move through the food chain from one animal to another.

Tokyo, Nov 9 - Researchers have hit upon a new way of tracking radiation faster and more efficiently at nuclear power plant accident sites.

Seiichi Yamamoto and Jun Hatazawa from Kobe City College of Technology and Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, have combined three modes of detection into a single hybrid technology.

Tokyo, June 10: Japanese green tea, which is widely known across the world for its purity and health-enhancing properties, has reportedly been contaminated with radiation following the accident in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant caused by the March 11 earthquake-cum-tsunami.

Tokyo, Jan 31 : About 40,000 chickens were killed Monday at a poultry farm in southern Japan after dead chickens found there were confirmed as infected with the bird-flu virus, news reports said.

At the farm in Miyazaki prefecture on the island of Kyushu, 90 chickens were found dead Sunday in the winter's sixth outbreak of bird flu in the prefecture and the ninth in the country.

Tokyo - The death of a 36-year-old pregnant woman who died after she was refused admission by seven hospitals in Tokyo sparked heated debates over a shortage of doctors, newspapers said Thursday.

The woman's gynecologist had asked a Tokyo hospital earlier this month to urgently treat the expecting mother, who was suffering from unusually acute headaches, but the clinic rejected her, saying no obstetrician was on duty. Six other hospital also refused admission.

London, October 4 : A clinic in Tokyo is attracting more and more weary workers who arrive here for an intravenous drip that provides an instant pick-me-up.

Tenteki10 clinics are said to be more akin to a bar.

Workers arrive here during their lunch breaks or at the end of another stressful day to get a boost in the form of an intravenous drip.

The drips take 10 minutes to administer, while stressed-out employees watch a flat-screen TV or make small talk with each other.

Tokyo, July 27 : Looking for a fun way to get rid of that extra flab? Well, consider hooping, a fitness trend that will let you have a blast while slimming down.

The athletic recreational activity is basically a new and improved version of hula hooping and it is about to become the next big thing in Tokyo.

In hooping, you sway your hips slightly and send a large ring rotating around your body.