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 ...

A woman rented a "Japanese old man" for a day during her visit to ... which provides a companion to young people for a fee. "I logged and searched through the older men and emailed a few.

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 ...

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