Japanese woman returns beloved RX-7 to Mazda after 25 years
Not so for 80-year-old Naoko Nishimoto of Nagasaki, whose sole choice of transportation for 25 years was a Mazda RX-7. A ...
Japan's Population Faces Extinction Amid Birth Rate Crisis
Japan will be down to its last child in 695 years, according to a university's "population clock"—a thought experiment and ...
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, chronicler of wartime internment, dies at 90
She and her husband wrote the memoir “Farewell to Manzanar,” recounting the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World ...
Japanese city becomes first to subsidise epidurals to encourage more women to have children
To address the problem, Tokyo mayor Yuriko Koike has pledged to subsidise epidural childbirth “as early as possible” to ...
The world's oldest woman says God is the secret to her longevity. Her predecessor credited bananas.
Genetics, lifestyle, and luck are all thought to contribute to longevity, but we don't know for sure. Centenarians attribute ...
Control of Padres subject of lawsuit filed by wife of late San Diego owner Peter Seidler
Sheel Seidler sued her brothers in law, a suit including a note purported written by Peter Seidler, who died in 2023, listing ...
Sheel Seidler, wife of late Padres owner, sues in-laws for control of the team
Sheel Seidler claims fiduciary breaches of trust, fraud, conversion, egregious acts of self-dealing, and accuses Robert ...
Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person at 116 has died
A Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died. She was 116.
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Iowa woman returns home after double-lung transplant
ASSESSMENTS IN KIDS. IN IOWA, WOMAN WHO RODE RAGBRAI BEFORE GETTING A DOUBLE LUNG TRANSPLANT IS BACK HOME TONIGHT. ALL RIGHT. THAT’S BARB HEENAN. SHE WALKED OUT OF THE HOSPITAL YESTERDAY JUST IN ...
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More Japanese women brewing sake
OKAYA, Japan — Not long after dawn, Japanese sake brewer Mie Takahashi checks the temperature of the mixture fermenting at her family’s 150-year-old sake brewery, Koten, nestled in the ...