Chinese man gets death sentence in deadly knife attack that injured two Japanese nationals
A Chinese man Thursday was sentenced to death for killing a man in a knife attack near Shanghai last summer. A Japanese mother and her child were also injured on a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, ...
World’s oldest living woman dies at 116 from natural causes
An 116-year-old Japanese woman who held the Guinness World Record for oldest living woman has died. Tomiko Itooka, who lived in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in central Japan, died from ...
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Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person at 116 has died
TOKYO (AP) — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an ...
Japanese woman charged with concealing baby's birth
A Japanese woman has pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court here to a charge of concealing the birth of a baby girl by ...
Mother calls on Trump to rescue Japanese citizens abducted by N.Korea
The mother of a Japanese woman who was abducted by North Korea says she hopes new US President Donald Trump will rescue her ...
Japanese woman returns beloved RX-7 to Mazda after 25 years
Not so for 80-year-old Naoko Nishimoto of Nagasaki, whose sole choice of transportation for 25 years was a Mazda RX-7. A ...
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‘This is historic’: Oregon swears in first female Japanese American lawmaker
Oregon State Representative Mari Watanabe was sworn into office at Portland’s Japanese Garden on Sunday – making history as ...
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Japanese woman pleads not guilty to concealing birth, dumping newborn in Cheras mall toilet
A Japanese woman pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court here today to a charge of concealing the birth of a baby girl by dumping the infant in ...
Vandalism of public art in Seattle’s Japantown ‘a punch in the gut’
An art installation in Nihonmachi Alley commemorating the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was smeared with black ink over the weekend.
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Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person at 116 has died
TOKYO (AP) — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu ...
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Oregon Swears In First Japanese American Lawmaker
Mari Watanabe became the newest member of the Oregon Legislature on Jan. 19—and also the state’s first-ever Japanese American ...
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Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person at 116 has died
Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata ...