A local planetarium damaged in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will observe its 30th anniversary on Jan. 17 by stopping its ...

Tokyo topped the rankings of Japan's 47 prefectures in terms of the amount of spending money adults have, followed by ...

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in Toki in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, has become the country's oldest person ...

More than 100 runners, wishing to be this year's "lucky men," have competed in an early morning race at a shrine in western ...

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in Toki in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, has become the country's oldest person ...

Itooka was born in 1908 in Osaka and and had four children along with five grandchildren. Japan has over 95,000 people aged ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of ...

Japanese media on Saturday reported that 116-year-old Tomiko Itooka, recognised as the world's oldest person, has died of old ...

The world’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, died the night of Dec. 29. She died from natural causes and lived to be 116 years ...

A 64-year-old man was found dead in his home in the city of Kobe on Thursday in an apparent hanging, while his sister-in-law, ...

Heavy snowstorms continue in areas along the Sea of Japan. Although their intensity is somewhat decreasing, meteorologists ...

The most common way to enjoy Goto udon in Shinkamigoto is “jigoku-daki” (literally “hell boiling”), which involves taking the ...