Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

A version of this scene repeated itself all day in Kyoto last month as 300 wrestlers went at it in bout after bout. This was ...

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 ...

Women's rights campaigners in Japan have expressed disappointment about the appointment of only two women in the new ...

The rise of women on the right is intriguing. It may also be short-lived. The steady growth of the number of women in ...

Hisako “Chako” Higuchi won the 1977 LPGA Championship (now KPMG Women’s PGA) to become the first Japanese player to win an ...

With its challenge to Japan’s conventional ideals of feminine beauty, the bar, which opened in mid-2020, draws about 100 customers on average each day, the majority of them foreign tourists, and has ...

Mone Chiba of Japan has won Skate Canada with a near-flawless free skate, holding off American Isabeau Levito.

A quiet revolution is building in Japan. In 2026 a legal reform will allow joint custody post-divorce and hopes to address ...

Rotterdam's 2026 Focus spotlights Japan's V-Cinema era with films by Miike Takashi, Nakata Hideo, Kurosawa Kiyoshi and Aoyama ...