IBM sued for age discrimination after firing over 20,000 staff over 40 in six years
A class-action lawsuit was filed this week on behalf of three former IBM employees who say the tech giant discriminated against them based on their age when it fired them. "Over the last several years, IBM has been in the process of systematically laying off ...
Japan's Diet OKs law lowering age of adulthood to 18
The Diet passes a package of amendments that — for the first time in 140 years — includes a measure lowering adulthood to 18 years old from the current 20.
Japanese packed with phrases for the ages
The Japanese language certainly has no shortage of age-related terms, and the subject can pop up in almost any context.
The oldest man in the nation, Masamitsu Yoshida, has died at the ripe old age of 112, the welfare ministry announced. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry was informed of the Ota Ward resident's death on Oct. 29 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government on Wednesday, ...
Civics classes a must before lowering age of majority to 18, surveys say
With plans afoot to lower the age of adulthood to 18 from 20, following the drop in the legal voting age last year, many Japanese, particularly those in their late teens, seem unprepared for the societal shift. In fact, a majority of Japan's teenagers do ...
Japan's oldest woman dies at 115; Kagoshima resident now record holder
The oldest person in Japan, a Tokyo woman born on March 15, 1900, died Sunday at the age of 115, the welfare ministry said Monday. With the passing of the woman, whose name is being withheld at the request of her family, Nabi Tajima, a ...
Japan ranks eighth in global survey on well-being of elderly
Japan was rated eighth in a global ranking of the social and economic well-being of elderly people in a survey released Wednesday. It lagged Switzerland, which topped the list, and a number of other European countries and Canada. However, it came first in the health category ...
Oregon cat Corduroy bags Guinness age record at 26 years, 13 days
An Oregon cat with a fondness for sharp cheddar and catching mice has become the oldest pet feline in the world at 26 years and 13 days, Guinness World Records officials said on Thursday. Corduroy lives in the rural community of Sisters, Oregon, about 100 ...
Osaka University team estimates a person's age from their gait
An Osaka University institute said Monday that researchers have developed an image analysis system that calculates a person's likely age by the way they walk. The machine films a subject's gait and compares it with known patterns, according to the team at the university's Institute ...
The world's oldest man died at the age of 111 in New York on Sunday, leaving a Japanese man, also aged 111, as the world's oldest. The death of Alexander Imich, a retired chemist and parapsychologist, was reported Monday. Imich was born on Feb. 4, ...
