Japanese woman returns beloved RX-7 to Mazda after 25 years
Not so for 80-year-old Naoko Nishimoto of Nagasaki, whose sole choice of transportation for 25 years was a Mazda RX-7. A ...
Japan's Population Faces Extinction Amid Birth Rate Crisis
Japan will be down to its last child in 695 years, according to a university's "population clock"—a thought experiment and ...
The Year’s First Great Show Is This Netflix Import About Infidelity
Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Monster) is one of cinema’s great humanists, and he expresses intense ...
Japanese city becomes first to subsidise epidurals to encourage more women to have children
To address the problem, Tokyo mayor Yuriko Koike has pledged to subsidise epidural childbirth “as early as possible” to ...
The world's oldest woman says God is the secret to her longevity. Her predecessor credited bananas.
Genetics, lifestyle, and luck are all thought to contribute to longevity, but we don't know for sure. Centenarians attribute ...
Sheel Seidler, Wife of Late Padres Owner, Sues Brothers-in-Law for Control of Team
In a petition filed in Travis County Probate Court in Austin, Texas, Sheel Seidler sued Matthew, who became executor of Peter ...
Control of Padres subject of lawsuit filed by wife of late San Diego owner Peter Seidler
Sheel Seidler sued her brothers in law, a suit including a note purported written by Peter Seidler, who died in 2023, listing ...
World’s oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, dies at 116
Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya ...
World’s oldest living woman dies at 116 from natural causes
Tomiko Itooka, who lived in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in central Japan, died from natural causes on Dec. 29 ...