Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in Toki in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, has become the country's oldest person following the death in late December of the previous titleholder, who lived to the ...

A soccer-loving nun from Brazil is believed to have become the world's oldest living person at nearly 117 following the recent death of a woman from Japan ... her 84-year-old nephew, told The ...

An 85-year-old woman was found dead and her 63-year-old son found unconscious at their home in Seto City, Aichi Prefecture, on Saturday. The son died later in hospital. According to police and the ...

Itooka, who loved bananas and a yogurt-flavored Japanese drink called Calpis, was born on May 23, 1908. She became the oldest person last year following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas ...

Tomiko Itooka passed away at her nursing home in Japan on December 29th. She was 116 years old. She became the oldest living person in August 2024 following the death of a 117-year-old woman.

ASHIYA, Japan (WKRC) - The oldest person in the world ... who was born 16 days after Itooka and is also 116 years old.

By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman born before the ... she died peacefully of complications related to old age. “I offer my deepest condolences,” said ...

TAKASAKI, Gunma — A daruma doll is a traditional Japanese craft known as a good luck charm called “Engi daruma.” The eyes of a new daruma are blank. You fill in the right side (the left eye of the ...

There are many pilgrims’ roads in Japan, but the Henro is among the oldest ... It’s a centuries-old ritual and a surprisingly moving one. Another custom that endures on the Shikoku Henro ...

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Chinese authorities have indicted a Chinese man in his 40s, who was previously arrested on murder charges, in connection with the September killing of a 10-year-old Japanese boy who was on his way to ...