A local planetarium damaged in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will observe its 30th anniversary on Jan. 17 by stopping its ...
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Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of ...
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 ...
Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in Toki in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, has become the country's oldest person following the death in late December of the previous titleholder, who lived to the ...
Tokyo: Japanese media on Saturday reported that 116-year-old Tomiko Itooka, recognised as the world's oldest person, has died ...
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, the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has sadly passed away at the age of 116 in ...
She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on Dec. 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan. Itooka, who loved bananas and a ...