The oldest person in Japan, 115-year-old Okagi Hayashi of Toki, Gifu Prefecture, still has a good appetite, and at a ...

The CRESTA organisation, which tracks catastrophe events outside the United States that have generated insurance industry ...

There will be no more Halloween trick-or-treating at the offices of Japan’s largest yakuza organization if Hyogo prefectural ... to avoid such yakuka-related events. Plans to revise the ...

Visit Japan during this time of year to see the country's cherry blossoms emerge from their winter slumber and bathe the ...

A surveillance camera shakes as a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocks the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's ...

In Japan, serpents can be either good or evil, bringing the blessings of rain or viciously attacking humans. Many boisterous festivals throughout the country are rooted in serpent-related ...

Balancing the need to attract visitors while preserving traditional rituals is an ongoing challenge for Japanese communities where local festivals are valuable assets that bring much-needed tourist ...

The Year of the Snake is in the celebratory spotlight at the Japanese American National Museum on the first Sunday of January ...

While some of those artists are staging their own headline shows, others are on the line-ups of music festivals with both ... for the Asian leg in Korea and Japan. The ‘Maestro’ singers ...

The festival is held at the prefectural Akigase Park in Saitama to celebrate the New Year and the coming of spring. The event features participants dancing to folk music. The Japan Kurdish ...

The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.