A bluefin tuna was sold for $1,316,835 (207 million yen) on Sunday (January 5), marking the second-highest bid at Tokyo's ...

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, who lived in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in central Japan, died from natural causes on Dec. 29 ...

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

Companies also face a battle to retain workers. While historically, employees in Japan would spend their entire career with ...

An 18-year-old woman dreaming of becoming a nurse, a single mother, a father of two and a former Princeton football star were ...

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

Japanese policymakers are increasingly anxious that the country's birth rate is nearing the point of no return.

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 ...

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