Some of the world's healthiest and longest-living people follow the practice of "hara hachi bu" an eating philosophy rooted ...

Some of the world’s longest-living people swear by hara hachi bu, an age-old Japanese philosophy that promotes eating in ...

NAGOYA--A woman who has admitted to fatally slashing a mother in 1999 said she had been living in fear of arrest, but she has ...

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are prompting young women to leave rural areas like this for opportunities ...