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Ex-press photographer sells his photo books in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Hiroki Gomi (R), a former press photographer of Japan's Mainichi Shimbun, sells his photography books with co-authors in Cairo, Egypt, on June 8, 2014.

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Obokata agrees to retract primary STAP cell paper

TOKYO, Japan - In this file photo taken in Kobe in western Japan on Jan. 28, 2014, Japanese scientist Haruko Obokata briefs reporters on the production of so-called STAP cells capable of developing into any type of tissue. The government-backed Riken institute said on June 4, 2014, that Obokata has agreed to retract a key paper claiming STAP cell production and deliver the agreed document to co-authors of the paper.

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STAP cell research paper questioned

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 2014 in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, shows Haruko Obokata (L), a scientist at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, and University of Yamanashi professor Teruhiko Wakayama, at a press conference on "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP, a method of generating pluripotent cells. Wakayama said March 10, 2014, he has told his co-authors including Obokata that their research paper on STAP cells should be retracted, citing the lack of credibility of some data used in the research.

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Stem cell research paper questioned

KOFU, Japan - University of Yamanashi professor Teruhiko Wakayama meets reporters in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on March 10, 2014. Wakayama has told his co-authors that their research paper on what appeared to be a groundbreaking method for producing stem cells should be retracted and resubmitted. Questions have been raised about irregular images contained in the paper, written by a group led by Haruko Obotaka at the Center for Developmental Biology of the government-affiliated Riken institute, on a method it named "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency" or STAP.

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Japan scientist proposes to retract stem cell research paper

KOFU, Japan - Teruhiko Wakayama, a professor at the University of Yamanashi and one of the co-authors of a research paper on what appeared to be a groundbreaking method of producing stem cells, explains his proposal to retract the paper in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on March 10, 2014. Questions have been raised about irregular images contained in the paper, written by a group led by Haruko Obotaka at the Center for Developmental Biology of the government-run Riken institute, on a method it named "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency" or STAP.

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Woman co-authors book to help save Japan's small soy sauce brewers

Keiko Kuroshima, a designer who also describes herself as a "soy sauce sommelier," poses in front of wooden brewing barrels with her co-authored book, which introduces small soy sauce breweries across Japan, in her hometown of Shodoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, on May 20, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prince Akishino co-authors book on chickens

TOKYO, Japan - A book co-authored by Prince Akishino about research in China on the domestication of wild chickens will go on sale this week. The 256-page book discusses the research the prince undertook in southern China in summer 1998 as a member of a research circle. The book is co-authored by four other researchers.