Japan’s 2025 census reflects steepest fall in population on record, data shows – The Japan Times

  1. Japan’s 2025 census reflects steepest fall in population on record, data shows  The Japan Times
  2. How Japan Lost 3 Million People in Five Years  The New York Times
  3. Census suggests largest drop in Japan's population over five-year period  nhk.or.jp
  4. Kyodo News Digest: May 29, 2026  Japan Wire by Kyodo News
  5. ASIA TODAY Japan has lost 2.5% of its population in five years  AsiaNews.it
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Sunbed group in hot seat over false claims that tanned skin protects against sunburn

Health organisations refute assertion by Sunbed Association that tanning is protective and warn it could increase risk of skin cancer

The body that represents the UK’s sunbed salons is wrongly insisting that a tan protects against sunburn, even though leading medical bodies (contacted by Full Fact) say that claim is untrue.

Health organisations have challenged the accuracy of information being disseminated by the Sunbed Association, which on its website asks: “Is it true there is no such thing as a safe tan?”

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Tenderness and Rage: how groups affected by HIV found power, comfort and joy in Aids activism

London exhibition explores how care and protest improved rights and dignity of those living with disease

From photos of a mass “die-in” by Aids activists in Trafalgar Square, London, in the 1990s to plushie breasts, lips and vulvas hand-stitched by HIV-positive women, a new exhibition explores how care and protest have improved the rights and dignity of those living with the disease.

The show, Tenderness and Rage, at the Wellcome Collection, London, reflects how different groups affected by HIV, including gay men, women of colour, and refugees in the UK and around the world have found power, solidarity, comfort and joy in Aids activism and support services.

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