In the wake of Branyas' death, the oldest living person in the world is Japan's Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908, and is 116 years old, according to the U.S.-based Gerontology Research ...

The world's oldest man has died at his home in Japan at the age of 114. Yukichi Chuganji, a retired silkworm breeder, was pronounced dead from natural causes last night, his 65-year-old nephew ...

Areas in Sardinia, Okinawa and Greece are supposedly home to unusual numbers of centenarians. Scientists are studying them to ...

A woman believed to be North America’s oldest citizen can be found at a senior living community in Mercer County, Pa., where ...

In Japan, the oldest known letters confirmed to date were ... researchers said it could provide important clues as to when people living on the Japanese archipelago began using a written language ...

The Roppongi Police Box, built 59 years ago, is the oldest among the 825 that dot the ... He took care of a drunken person and cautioned a man on an electric kick scooter riding on a sidewalk.

Japan’s constitution enshrines the right to its pursuit ... Characters in PHP’s drama include a man who at 92 is the world’s ...

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Dietrich and Emma Thiesfeld’s 14 children could just about constitute an army in themselves. “Seven of them are or were ...

Donald Trump has been elected U.S. president after scoring a decisive victory over his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris, with a swath of voters apparently caring little about the prospect of a more v ...

“The Japanese run one of the largest and longest-running nutritional ... For decades, the Guinness Book of Records stated that the world’s oldest man was Pierre Joubert, who had lived to the grand old ...

I think it was a natural progression," he said Known as "King Kazu," Miura is widely listed as the oldest active professional ...