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 ...

An 81-year-old Japanese woman, known as Akiyo, has sparked discussion about Japan’s ageing population ... I thought, ‘There is no point in me living,’ and ‘I just want to die,’” she said. Story ...

Lin Shemu lived for 122 years and 197 days and witnessed two world wars, two pandemics and the rollout of electricity into ...

Lin Shemu, from China, died peacefully in her sleep at home at the age of 122 years and 197 days, according to her family, ...

Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality ...

AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda has donated an historic $100 million to the University of Sydney to fund a 20-year effort to get ...

Libraries in contemporary Japanese and Korean fiction are evolving into spaces where reading offers solace, connection, and ...

The hate campaign echoes a spate of incidents over the years against ethnic Koreans living all over Japan, including Kawasaki ... something happens,” said a woman who serves as an executive ...

No matter the occasion, Japanese women tend to adopt a high-pitched voice in public or when speaking on the telephone. The same can be said of actresses in movies as well as news anchors in Japan.