After the death of Maria Branyas at 117 last year, Itooka claimed the title of the oldest living person according to the ...

Erik Buhrow dreams of retiring in Japan. Until then, he's renting out the akiya, or abandoned home, to other Americans who ...

Nutritionist and longevity expert Michiko Tomioka grew up in Japan, where some of the world's longest-living people live. She ...

Kanye West continues to shun America in favor of a new life in Japan with wife Bianca Censori, and he’s looking into the ...

After two decades in Japan, one Canadian man shares some differences between life there and in his home country. Ron Reid, ...

“Japanese people have no heart.” But after living in Japan for a year and experiencing many things, I realized it is not true. I saw people give up their seats for old people on the ...

Core inflation in Japan's capital hit 2.5%, marking the fastest annual pace in nearly a year, well exceeding the central bank ...

As an American living in Japan, one of the best parts of being based here is the chance to visit remote places that are often overlooked by foreign travelers.

Emergency workers in Japan have begun building a ramp to try and reach a 74-year-old truck driver who has not been heard from ...

Japan, known for its robust aging population, was ranked the healthiest country to age in by the National Center for Health ...

Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, could be any suburb in the Tokyo orbit. Population 600,000. Thirty minutes by train from the metropolitan core, where many residents work, though local industry ...