Born in 1908, she raised four children, ran a family textile factory during World War II, and remained an avid hiker into her ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died. She was 116.

Global population is set to peak in mid-2080s, then undergo a dramatic decline. Mark Rowe reports on the consequences of such ...

The 35-year-old American, identified by local outlets as Freeman Timothy Jr., died in the fire Sunday at the Ember Hotel near ...

Severely disfigured when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, she spent her life warning others about the ...

Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family’s ...

Naoko Nishimoto vowed to give up driving when she reached the age of 80. That meant finding a new home for her treasured ...

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 ...

As cinema spreads across the globe, Japan shines as one of the leading and cherished film ... Directed by Rikiya Imaizumi, the plot follows Chihiro (Kasumi Arimura), a candid and direct young woman ...

The restaurant chain was founded by chef Kunio Ichinose. Credit: yu_photo/Shutterstock. Japanese fast-casual restaurant chain Pepper Lunch plans to open its first store in Mongolia in 2025 as part of ...

Japanese beer company Sapporo Holdings has announced that Hiroshi Tokimatsu, currently the executive group managing officer, will be promoted to president. The leadership change comes as the company ...

There was a time when smartwatches simply weren’t designed for ladies. Smartwatches for women were an afterthought — but luckily that’s now changed. Many smartwatches and fitness trackers ...