Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, born before the start of World War I, who was believed to be the oldest person in the world, passed away at a nursing home in Japan’s Ashiya at the age of 116, The New ...

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

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Japan's Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year's well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial ...

Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese ...

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / SEPT. 2 A crushed car remains at 85-1373 Waianae Valley Road where a front loader, operated by a neighbor, razed into vehicles and people on the night of Aug. 31. The neighbor ...

A social welfare corporation in the west Japan city of Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, is pushing ahead with a digital ...

Shigeko Sasamori, who was severely burned at 13 when a nuclear bomb exploded over Japan and later, in the United States, championed peace and found comfort in helping others as a nurse’s aide, died ...

Warren “Red” Upton, the 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese surprise ...

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There was no tip jar or prompt to tip on the credit card screen, as tipping isn’t part of the culture in Japan. I thought ...