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Best-selling Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of cancer

A bookstore in Tokyo earmarks a corner for Keigo Higashino's books on July 27, 2026, after publishers announce the death of the bestselling Japanese mystery author. Higashino, whose works have gained wide popularity in South Korea, China and other parts of Asia, died of bowel cancer on July 23, aged 68.

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Best-selling Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of cancer

A bookstore in Tokyo earmarks a corner for Keigo Higashino's books on July 27, 2026, after publishers announce the death of the bestselling Japanese mystery author. Higashino, whose works have gained wide popularity in South Korea, China and other parts of Asia, died of bowel cancer on July 23, aged 68.

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Best-selling Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of cancer

Novels by best-selling Japanese mystery author Keigo Higashino are displayed at a bookstore in Shanghai on July 27, 2026. Higashino, whose works have gained wide popularity in South Korea, China and other parts of Asia, died of bowel cancer on July 23, aged 68.

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Best-selling Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of cancer

Keigo Higashino attends an award ceremony after winning the Japan Mystery Literature Award in Tokyo on March 18, 2025. The best-selling author, whose works gained wide popularity in South Korea, China and other parts of Asia, died of bowel cancer on July 23, 2026, aged 68.

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Best-selling Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of cancer

Keigo Higashino attends an award ceremony after winning the Japan Mystery Literature Award in Tokyo on March 18, 2025. The best-selling author, whose works gained wide popularity in South Korea, China and other parts of Asia, died of bowel cancer on July 23, 2026, aged 68.

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Best-selling Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of cancer

A bookstore in Tokyo earmarks a corner for Keigo Higashino's books on July 27, 2026, after publishers announce the death of the bestselling Japanese mystery author. Higashino, whose works gained wide popularity in South Korea, China and other parts of Asia, died of bowel cancer on July 23, 2026, aged of 68.

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Best-selling Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of cancer

A woman reads a novel by bestselling Japanese mystery writer Keigo Higashino at a bookstore in Shanghai on July 27, 2026, after news of his death. Higashino, whose works gained wide popularity in South Korea, China and other parts of Asia, died of bowel cancer on July 23, aged 68.

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Best-selling Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of cancer

Japanese mystery author Keigo Higashino holds a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2006, after winning the prestigious Naoki Prize for "Yogisha X no Kenshin (The Devotion of Suspect X)." The best-selling author, whose works gained wide popularity in South Korea, China and other parts of Asia, died of bowel cancer on July 23, 2026, aged 68.

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Best-selling Japanese author Keigo Higashino dies of cancer

Photo taken in Tokyo in December 2023 shows Keigo Higashino, a bestselling Japanese author known for his mystery novels. Higashino, whose works gained wide popularity in South Korea, China and other parts of Asia, died of bowel cancer on July 23, 2026, aged 68.

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Olympus set to launch capsule endoscope in Europe

TOKYO, Japan - Olympus Medical Systems Corp. said Oct. 13 it will launch a capsule endoscope (ih handout photo) for the small bowel on Oct. 24 in 33 European countries including Britain, France and Germany. The capsule, measuring 11 millimeters in diameter and 26 mm in length, will be swallowed to transmit two images per second to a recorder unit via a built-in antenna until it is expelled through the anus, the medical systems unit of Japanese camera maker Olympus Corp. said.

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Six plaintiffs recognized as sufferers of a-bomb linked diseases

Atomic bombing survivors, or hibakusha, and their supporters celebrate on June 29, 2016, after the Tokyo District Court accepted that six of them should be recognized as sufferers of A-bomb related diseases. The plaintiffs were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the cities were hit by atomic bombs in the latter stages of WWII, and have suffered various diseases, including heart failure and bowel cancer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympus set to launch capsule endoscope in Europe

TOKYO, Japan - Olympus Medical Systems Corp. said Oct. 13 it will launch a capsule endoscope (ih handout photo) for the small bowel on Oct. 24 in 33 European countries including Britain, France and Germany. The capsule, measuring 11 millimeters in diameter and 26 mm in length, will be swallowed to transmit two images per second to a recorder unit via a built-in antenna until it is expelled through the anus, the medical systems unit of Japanese camera maker Olympus Corp. said. (Kyodo)