GERO, Gifu Prefecture—Complaints about naked and ... part of the Gero resort, one of Japan’s three prominent spa zones. “We will never abolish it (Funsenchi), as it is our traditional ...

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in central Japan's Gifu Prefecture, has become the country's oldest person following the ...

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in Toki in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, has become the country's oldest person following the death ... died of old age on Dec 29 at a nursing home for elderly ...

Weather officials in Japan are forecasting heavy snow in wide areas along the Sea of Japan coast later this week.

And in May, a Japanese man killed four people, including two police officers ... blocking off roads around the training facility in Gifu city. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu ...