YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Nearly three dozen patients were treated through a program that brought a plastic surgeon to this airlift hub in western Tokyo for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Netflix Japan has greenlit Plastic Beauty, a new drama set in the world of cosmetic surgery, for 2026. At the center of Plastic Beauty is Fumi Numata (Mayu Matsuoka), a gifted surgeon whose passion ...

TOKYO >> Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilization surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional, a landmark ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilization surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional, a landmark ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court on ...