Japan's Coming of Age Day is a sure sign of winter, arriving after New Year celebrations and ahead of the cherry blossom ...

Japan's Coming of Age Day is a sure sign of winter, arriving after New Year celebrations and before the cherry blossom ...

Japan's Coming of Age Day is a sure sign of winter, arriving after New Year celebrations and ahead of the cherry blossom ...

Japanese media say a sociology student attacked her classmates with a hammer during class after voicing frustration at being ...

Before Marie Kondo stormed into the international consciousness, Hideko Yamashita taught Japan the art of decluttering.

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

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

Two-thirds of Japanese companies are experiencing a serious business impact from a shortage of workers, a Reuters survey ...

The world's oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died at the age of 116, the city of Ashiya where she lived ...

Choking on mochi is so common that authorities offer tips every year on how to help someone who has the food lodged in their throat.

Two elderly men in Japan choked to death on mochi rice cakes as part of a New Year’s tradition that authorities have issued ...