Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the ...

It's more than a love language allergy. With the cherry blossoms unfurling throughout the city, Tokyo basks in the most romantic season of the year. Yet this city is a world away from Paris, where ...

AKASHI, Hyogo -- A city library here is now a busy place for local people. It opened in April 2025. It does not ask all ...

Japan is experiencing historically high numbers of foreigners. Its population is shrinking, and its workforce is ageing, driving foreign labour to historic levels. In addition, the number of ...

In February 2023, a snowy town in Fukui suddenly made news headlines. The government of Ikeda Town had published "The 7 Rules of Life in Ikeda" in its promotional pamphlet, and these rules laid down ...

In their study, published in the journal Science Advances, the group sequenced the genes of so many people that they were able to decode the tri-ancestral origins of the Japanese population—and also ...

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A longevity researcher who verifies the ages of supercentenarians, and whose great-grandmother lived to the age of 116, shared four aging secrets from the longest-living people in Japan. Yumi Yamamoto ...

SUZU, Japan — A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan left at least 62 people dead Wednesday, as rescue workers fought to save those feared trapped under the rubble of collapsed ...

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