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

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 ...

Japan leads the world in per capita sales of adult diapers. Japan’s population is getting so old that one major diaper manufacturer is now making products only for adults, not for babies. Japan’s ...

Emergency workers in Japan have begun building a ramp to try and reach a 74-year-old truck driver who has not been heard from ...

Japanese authorities have asked residents of 12 cities and towns in Saitama prefecture to limit showers and laundry to ...

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 ...