Japan is home to some of the world’s longest-living people, especially in Okinawa, where centenarians are surprisingly common ...

A survey shows the rise in Japan's living costs is hitting university students hard. More than 90 percent of students on ...

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and ...

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TOKYO—Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Nara Prefecture, has become Japan’s oldest living person, ...

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My husband, daughter, and I moved from North Carolina to Okinawa, an island known as the "Hawaii of Japan," in 2022 and have lived here ever since.

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