ASHIYA, Hyogo Prefecture--Local voters made national history by electing a 26-year-old to lead the city, making him the youngest mayor ever in Japan. Winning more than 46 percent of the vote ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of ...

A Japanese woman considered to be the world's longest-lived person died on Dec. 29 at 116 years old at a nursing home in the city of Ashiya in the Hyogo Prefecture, it was reported Saturday.

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman recognized as Japan's oldest living person, has died from heart failure over the weekend, ...

She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on Dec. 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan. Itooka, who loved bananas and a ...

She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on 29 Dec at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan. Itooka, who loved bananas and a ...

Takashima, who is 26, assumed the mayoral seat for the city of Ashiya in Hyogo Prefecture ... for young politicians to win elected office in Japan, with the average age of mayors elected this ...

Tokyo, April 28 (Jiji Press)--The oldest person in Japan, Okagi Hayashi ... when a woman living in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, died at the age of 116.