The distribution of plants has been shaped by geological and climatic changes over time through repeated migration, ...
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...
Archaeologists have said in a new study that the intricate details of tattoos on centuries-old mummies in Peru have ... were "predominantly geometric patterns featuring triangles, which are ...
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 ...
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 ...
The market draws people from all over the world, and many of the biggest vintage clothing buyers come from Japan. Connor Gressit is a Rose Bowl vendor who says that’s been true a long time: “Since the ...
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 ...
Police in Kushiro, Hokkaido, have arrested a 78-year-old man for pouring boiling water on his 49-year-old son on New Year's Day. According to police, the incident occurred at around 5:30 p.m.
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 ...