The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their ...

I visited Aomori city, the snowiest city in the world to show you what life is like there. In part 1 you'll see how Aomori ...

Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment ...

The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) is a Partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank conceived in the wake of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It was ...

Mr. Villain's Day Off has an inspired premise for an iyashikei anime: A sentai baddie needs time off just like everybody else. Warumono-san is in charge of subjugating the Earth, ...

Large traditional kites are on display at the Japanese garden in Showa Kinen Park, which spans Tachikawa and Akishima cities in Tokyo, to help visitors enjoy the spirit of the New Year. These kites ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person, according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.Video above: Tomiko Itooka at a ...

The world's oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died aged 116, the city where she lived, Ashiya, announced on Saturday. Itooka, who had four children and five grandchildren, died on ...