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"I'm sorry" festival in Japan

NANKOKU, Japan, May 12 Kyodo - A man apologizes out loud from a three-meter-high platform during the "I'm sorry" festival in Nankoku, Kochi Prefecture, western Japan, on May 12, 2019. The festival has been held since 2013 to promote the city which has an area named Gomen, meaning "I'm sorry" in Japanese.

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"I'm sorry" festival in Japan

NANKOKU, Japan, May 12 Kyodo - A woman apologizes out loud from a three-meter-high platform during the "I'm sorry" festival in Nankoku, Kochi Prefecture, western Japan, on May 12, 2019. The festival has been held since 2013 to promote the city which has an area named Gomen, meaning "I'm sorry" in Japanese.

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Japan's oldest person Toyonaga dies at 113

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuneyo Toyonaga (file photo), who has been recognized as Japan's oldest person, died of natural causes in Nankoku, Kochi Prefecture, on Feb. 21. She was 113. She became the nation's oldest person in August last year when the then oldest person, Shitsu Nakano of Fukuoka Prefecture, died at the age of 113 years and seven months.