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 ...

TOKYO: The world's oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died aged 116, the city of Ashiya announced on Saturday (Jan 4). Itooka, who had four children and five grandchildren ...

passed away at a nursing home in Japan's Ashiya at the age of 116, The New York Times reported. She is survived by one daughter, one son and an unknown number of her five grandchildren.

a Japanese woman born before the start of World War I and the sinking of the Titanic who was believed to be the oldest person in the world, died at a nursing home in Ashiya, Japan. She was 116.