26-Sep-17 Air Liquide is expanding its healthcare business in Japan with the acquisition of Sogo Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha, a Japanese player with a strong presence in the home healthcare and medical gases markets, especially in the Tokyo region. [image: Air Liquide]

15-Sep-17 Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten has acquired a 10% stake in mattress maker Airweave for USD11 mn. It hopes to use Airweave's customer sleep data to develop products and services bespoke to the health needs of individual customers. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]

07-Sep-17 Japanese manufacturers of diagnostic tests are ramping up in Asia, to catch up with global players. CMIC is launching a diabetes diagnostics business in the Philippines and Vietnam, while Tokyo-based J-VPD will launch a clinical testing business in India. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]

05-Sep-17 Japanese electronics manufacturer Kyocera is working with the University of Tsukuba to develop an artificial intelligence based image recognition system that can remotely detect melanoma and other skin diseases by analysing digital images using a smartphone. [image: HealthData Management]

03-Sep-17 Eyewear prices are rising in Japan as retailers cater to an increasingly glasses-needy population. Yasunori Kitagaito of retailer Jins Inc said "a growing number of customers in their 40s and 50s are buying bifocals and other high value-added lenses." [image: Nikkei Asian Review]