TOKYO — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata ...

Each participant tries to get as close as possible to a man playing the role of “shin-otoko,” a god-man ... excluding women — only men are considered pure in the traditional Japanese ...

A signature piece by famous Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro titled "Young Woman Blowing a Glass Pipe (poppin)" was discovered for the first time in 44 years, the Tokyo National Museum in the ...

"I said, 'My God, I'm Japanese and I didn't know it,'" Stefani ... "But I am an Asian woman living in America, which comes with sobering realities during a time of heightened Asian American ...