We're in love with vintage Noritake china ... Aichi, Japan. This allowed the company to control the quality of its goods and designs and ensured that the patterns appealed to U.S. buyers.

Here’s how it works. The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds.

an old video of houses collapsing spread globally in social media posts that falsely linked it to the disaster. The footage was in fact shot in Japan and circulated in news reports about an ...

Now 12 years old, Yume was presented to Putin as a thank-you for Russia's support of areas affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. A spokesperson for the Russian presidential office ...

There are many pilgrims’ roads in Japan, but the Henro is among the oldest ... It’s a centuries-old ritual and a surprisingly moving one. Another custom that endures on the Shikoku Henro ...

Trick is to be able to break out of old patterns. Stop being: always right. Easier said than done, those patterns, configurations become our identity. “Given one hour to save the world ...

Itooka, who loved bananas and a yogurt-flavored Japanese drink called Calpis, was born on May 23, 1908. She became the oldest person last year following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas ...

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in Toki in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, has become the country's oldest person following the death in late December of the previous titleholder, who lived to the ...

By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman born before the ... she died peacefully of complications related to old age. “I offer my deepest condolences,” said ...

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ASHIYA, Japan (WKRC) - The oldest person in the world ... who was born 16 days after Itooka and is also 116 years old.