Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on 29 December at a […]
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Japan’s parliament re-elected the prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, on Monday after his governing coalition suffered the worst election loss in more than a decade. Ishiba’s ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) and its junior partner, Komeito, together lost their majority in
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Heavy rain pounded Japan’s north-central region of Noto, triggering landslides and floods and leaving one person dead and several missing, officials said. The deluges caused swollen rivers to overflow, flooding homes and stranding some residents in the region still recovering
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