Effects of switching from MiniMed™ 640G to 770G on continuous glucose monitoring metrics and DTR‐QOL scores: An observational study of Japanese people with type 1 diabetes mellitus by Toshiki Kogai, Junko Sato, Haruna Yasuda, Tatsuhiro Ayame, Azusa Ozaki, Eri Takagi, Mami Koshibu, Yuya Nishida, Fuki Ikeda, Hirotaka Watada

“…Fifty Japanese people with type 1 diabetes switched from the MiniMed™ 640G to 770G, and we analyzed the continuous glucose monitoring data of 24 subjects who used auto mode throughout the study. …”
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Prevalence of nonrestorative sleep before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: based on a nationwide cross-sectional survey among Japanese in 2019 and 2022 by Kimiko Tomioka, Midori Shima, Keigo Saeki

“…Background: Japanese people sleep less compared to other countries around the world. …”
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Coimagining the Future of Voice Assistants with Cultural Sensitivity by Katie Seaborn, Yuto Sawa, Mizuki Watanabe

“…We conducted an online elicitation study (N=135) where Americans (n=64) and Japanese people (n=71) imagined dialogues (N=282) and activities (N=73) with future VAs. …”
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Foreigner in contemporary Japanese state discourse: Constructing differences between the nation and the Other by D. S. Alekseev

“…The findings show that the analyzed materials reproduce the boundaries between Japanese people and foreigners, rearticulate Japan’s cultural uniqueness, and implicitly reinforce the narrative of mono-ethnicity. …”
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The humanistic and societal impact of obesity in Japan: a targeted literature review by Wataru Ogawa, Palvi Gupta

“…Overall, this study found that obesity in Japan is associated with a substantial burden. Japanese people are at risk even with BMI ≥25–<30 kg/m2, which are generally considered as pre-obese in other countries.…”
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Functional food products in Japan: A review by Shun Iwatani, Naoyuki Yamamoto

“…Japan has a long history of using foods with health benefits and Japanese people are well-known for their longevity. In 1991, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare introduced a functional food regulation called “foods for specified health uses” (FOSHU) in Japan. …”
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Estimating the Force of Infection with Helicobacter pylori in Japan by Taishi Kayano, Ki-Deok Lee, Hiroshi Nishiura

“…Although the seroprevalence against Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) in Japan has declined over the birth year, Japanese people have yet exhibited a relatively high risk of gastric cancer. …”
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CryJ-LAMP DNA Vaccines for Japanese Red Cedar Allergy Induce Robust Th1-Type Immune Responses in Murine Model by Yan Su, Michael Connolly, Anthony Marketon, Teri Heiland

“…Allergies caused by Japanese Red Cedar (JRC) pollen affect up to a third of Japanese people, necessitating development of an effective therapeutic. …”
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Immigration modulates audiovisual emotional processing in adults: is this really an influence of the host culture? by Anna K. Nakamura, Anna K. Nakamura, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Hisako W. Yamamoto, Sachiko Takagi, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hiroyuki Okada, Chiaki Ishiguro, Chiaki Ishiguro, Akihiro Tanaka

“…Additionally, immigrants with a longer stay showed a higher response in the posterior superior temporal gyrus, a brain region associated with audiovisual emotional integration, when processing emotionally congruent faces and voices.DiscussionThese modifications imply that immigrants from Western cultures tend to rely even less on voices, in contrast to the tendency of voice-dominance observed in native Japanese people. This change may be explained by the decreased focus on prosodic aspects of voices during second language acquisition. …”
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Plain Language Summary of Publication: The ProLOGUE study investigating brodalumab in people with plaque psoriasis by Shinichi Imafuku, Chika Ohata, Masaru Honma, Hidehisa Saeki, Yoko Mizutani, Takuya Miyagi, Kenta Murotani, Yasumasa Kanai

“…This summary describes the results of the ProLOGUE study, which tested the effects of brodalumab in Japanese people with plaque psoriasis using outcomes mostly reported by the study participants. …”
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Relationship between sleep disorders and depressive symptoms among young women in Japan: a web-based cross-sectional study by Yuta Suzuki, Yukio Urabe, Noriaki Maeda, Satoshi Arima, Tsubasa Tashiro, Rami Mizuta, Takeru Abekura, Sakura Oda, Satoshi Onoue

“…Objectives Japanese people are known to get the least amount of sleep in the world, and in particular, the increase in sleep deprived young women is a serious problem. …”
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