The morning after pill in Japan is available OTC for the first time. Find out how to get it, what it costs and the rules.

TOKYO (AP) — Health supplement products believed to have caused two deaths and sickened more than 100 people have been ordered to be taken off store shelves in Japan. The products from Kobayashi ...

TOKYO, May 8 (Reuters) - Cosmetics giant Shiseido <4911.T> and Internet access provider eAccess <9427.T> are among a handful of Japanese companies that have recently scrapped "poison pill" takeover ...

Cardinal Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo has spoken out against the over-the-counter sale of an emergency contraceptive pill in Japan, allowing women in the country to take the medication without a prescription ...

TOKYO -- Five years ago Japanese women's rights advocates won their battle to legalize the birth control pill. Now they are waging an even tougher fight -- getting women to use it. "I don't know ...

Akihiro Kobayashi, President of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., left, bows during a press conference in Osaka, on March 22, 2024. Health supplement products believed to have caused a few deaths and ...