ASHIYA, Hyogo Prefecture--Local voters made ... when Kotaro Shishida was elected at 27 to lead Musashimurayama in western Tokyo, according to the Japan Association of City Mayors.

Itooka, who was born on 23 May 1908 in Osaka, has lived in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, since 2019. Prior to this, she resided with her two daughters until the age of 110.

ASHIYA, Hyogo Prefecture--Interactive 3-D virtual reality photographs have been created to promote three historic buildings of modernist architecture in Ashiya city to the world. One of the ...

TOKYO - The world’s oldest person, a Japanese woman named Tomiko Itooka, has died at the age of 116, the city where she lived, Ashiya, announced on Jan 4. Ms Itooka, who had four children and ...