An 81-year-old Japanese woman, Akiyo, commits crimes intentionally to avoid loneliness and receive stable living conditions ...

Experiences with racism One of the downsides of living in Japan as a Black woman is the fetishization that we face. I've observed that Japanese people often view Black women as being "sexually ...

Akiyo was lodged in Tochigi Women's Prison, Japan's largest women's prison, located north of Tokyo. It houses nearly 500 ...

A 116-year-old Japanese woman who held the Guinness World Record for oldest living woman has died. Tomiko Itooka, who lived in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in central Japan ...

TOKYO (Bernama-Xinhua): Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in central Japan's Gifu ... Born on Sept 2, 1909, Hayashi became the oldest living person in Japan after Tomiko Itooka, who lived ...

‘There’s no point in me living,’ and ‘I just want to die.’” Theft is by far the most common crime committed by elderly inmates, especially among women. In 2022, more than 80% of elderly female inmates ...

Hanson, 37, was living in Lake Oswego ... on what she found to be lacking in the US. An Oregon woman moved her family to Japan for peace of mind Hanson and her family didn't immediately decide ...