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

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

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 ...

In Japan's Tochigi Women's Prison, an 81-year-old inmate, Akiyo, has found an unexpected sense of stability behind bars. Serving her second sentence for theft, Akiyo's story sheds light on the ...

Okinawa, Japan, is also considered a blue zone, home to some of the world’s longest-living and happiest communities. But, ...

‘There’s no point in me living,’ and ‘I just want to die.’” Theft is by far the most common crime committed by elderly ...