“The saddest thing in life,” runs an old Japanese proverb, “is to be born a woman.” In the feudal days before MacArthur, it contained more than a grain of truth; Japanese women then were ...

Shizuoka Prefecture has recorded the longest estimated average healthy life expectancy for both men and women as of 2022, at 73.75 and 76.68 years respectively, the health ministry said Tuesday.

A woman who went missing on Monday while swimming at a beach in Shizuoka Prefecture was found alive 36 hours later off the coast of Chiba Prefecture on Wednesday morning, according to the Japan ...

The call came after a Chinese student, who was rescued twice from Mount Fuji, said he went back the second time to try to retrieve his phone Officials in Japan are calling for new rules to charge ...

A woman plunged to her death after losing her footing from a bridge while filming wild deer in Japan on Saturday. The incident took place at around 9.30am in the town of Higashi-Izu in Shizuoka ...

With the Hojicha, it’s over in 10. Shizuoka produces 40 per cent of Japan’s tea, mostly on small family plantations like Shigeta’s, that grow tea bushes where otherwise there’d be rice.