A survey shows that nearly 60 percent of children in Japan's low-income households are bearing the brunt of recent higher prices in terms of education.

Kidsdoor, a non-profit organization whose mission is to address child poverty, conducted the survey this month among families it supports and 1,846 people responded.

A Japanese medical institution says an increasing number of children had to receive liver transplants from living donors this year after their condition worsened. It attributes the delay in the operations to the coronavirus outbreak.

A team led by Yamada Masaki at the National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo conducted a survey of 15 children who received living-donor liver transplants between May and October.

A group of fishermen has asked a court to issue an injunction to stop the government from conducting a drilling survey around an island in southwestern Japan. The Defense Ministry plans to relocate US military exercises to the island.

The ministry intends to build a Self Defense Force facility on Kagoshima Prefecture's Mageshima island in order to relocate the takeoff and landing exercises of US carrier-borne planes there. The ministry is about to start conducting the drilling survey at 37 locations east of the island on the seabed.

Japanese junior high school students are improving their scores in mathematics while elementary school students' scores in science are declining.

An international survey called "Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study," or TIMSS, is released every four years by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement based in the Netherlands.

An opinion poll conducted in both Japan and China has shown a gap in the way people in each place think about their neighboring country.

Japanese non-profit group Genron NPO and the China International Publishing Group conducted the joint survey in September and October. About 2,600 people in the two countries responded.

A survey of schools in Japan shows that more than 10 percent of them had students who were absent to prevent coronavirus infection.

The Japan Teachers' Union issued a report on the survey conducted between late August and mid-September -- the period just after summer break. A total of 1,152 schools from elementary to senior high as well as those for special needs responded.

Japan's health ministry is conducting an online survey to find out how the coronavirus is affecting mental health.

The World Health Organization says a sense of isolation and decreasing incomes are believed to be causing more people to become dependent on alcohol or suffer from insomnia.

Another municipality in Japan has decided to take part in the first stage of a government process to select a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste.

The mayor of Kamoenai Village in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido announced the decision to accept the so-called literature survey on Friday.

A town in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido has applied for the first-stage survey for the government's selection of a final disposal site for nuclear waste.

The mayor of Suttsu, Kataoka Haruo, submitted the application to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, or NUMO, in Tokyo on Friday.

A town in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido says it has decided to apply for a first stage survey by the government for selecting a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.

Suttsu Town is now to be the first municipality to apply for the survey since the government released in 2017 a map showing areas deemed suitable in scientific terms to host such sites underground.

A survey by Japan's cultural affairs agency shows nearly half of respondents think it's necessary to use simple Japanese language for information on disasters and public services, as the country has an increasing number of foreign residents.

The agency conducts an annual survey on changes to the way the Japanese language is used. It focused for the first time this year on a national effort to use "Easy Japanese" to assist non-native speakers in times of disaster. Easy Japanese includes the use of short sentences, simple words and fewer kanji characters.

Japanese researchers have begun a large-scale survey to check blood samples from coronavirus survivors to see how long antibodies remain in the human body.

Antibodies are proteins created in the body after a virus infection. One type, called neutralizing antibodies, are said to suppress virus activity and prevent infection.

A global survey exploring Japanese ancestry has shown that younger generations tend to have a strong awareness of their ethnic identity.

The Nippon Foundation conducted the survey last year, receiving responses from about 3,800 Japanese emigrants and their descendants, also known as "Nikkei," in the US, Brazil and other countries.

A South Korean coast guard ship has ordered a Japanese coast guard vessel to end a survey it is conducting in Japan's exclusive economic zone off the southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki.

The Japan Coast Guard, or JCG, says the South Korean ship radioed the demand shortly after 4 a.m. on Saturday when the Japanese vessel was engaged in a survey about 140 kilometers west of Meshima, an islet in Nagasaki's Goto Islands. The JCG says the waters are within Japan's EEZ.