The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the planned admission fee hike for Himeji Castle in ...

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

TOKYO - Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in central Japan's Gifu Prefecture, 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 ...

She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on Dec. 29 at a care home in ...

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

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman recognised by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person, has died aged 116, ...

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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 ...

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

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