Her 43-year-old son, who lived with her before she was imprisoned ... Some do it for survival – 20% of people aged over 65 in Japan live in poverty, according to the OECD, compared to an average of 14 ...

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 ...

many older Japanese women are turning to imprisonment to find community and support. Akiyo, identified by pseudonym for privacy, is an 81-year-old inmate who was serving time for shoplifting food.

Rescue teams are continuing efforts to rescue a 74-year-old man trapped in a sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama, ...

But after living in Japan for a year and experiencing many things, I realized it is not true. I saw people give up their seats for old people on the train, help others get up from a fall and give ...

People in Japan love bathing in hot springs, or onsen.And since the old days, it has been common for people to check into residential hot-spring inns for extended stays to boost their health, heal ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human ... are thought to be from two different people — one who lived about 14,000 years ...