(Kyodo Photo via AP) TOKYO (AP) — Meet the world's oldest female barber: She is 108 but the slender, white-haired Japanese woman has no plans to retire anytime soon. Shitsui Hakoishi says the formal ...

Born on November 10, 1916, to a family of farmers in Nakagawa, Shitsui Hakoishi decided to become a barber at age 14 ...

Jewher Ilham, the daughter of jailed Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti, has vowed to make people all over the world aware of the ...

A bullet train on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line made an emergency stop near a station in Tokyo on Thursday after two cars ...

A 25-year-old former member of the Japanese boy band ONE N' ONLY has been charged with indecent assault of a woman in Hong ...

A bullet train on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line made an emergency stop near a station in Tokyo on Thursday after two cars ...

The grand roof at the venue for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, was recognised as the world's largest ...

UTSUNOMIYA (Japan), March 5 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- A 108-year-old woman from eastern Japan was officially recognised on Wednesday ...

A Saitama nursery school director was arrested Tuesday for urinating in a student’s water bottle as a form of punishment, ...

Several North Korean sanatoriums originally meant for soldiers needing rest or medical treatment are now being used for ...

Tokyo police saw a record 4.49 billion yen (RM133 million) worth of cash turned in as lost property in 2024, up 1.8 per cent ...