Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

Sanae Takaichi stood in Tokyo as the first woman to become Japan’s Prime Minister. Her achievement is both symbolically and ...

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

TOKYO — On the Olympic podium stood three teenage girls — 13, 13 and 16 — with weighty gold, silver and bronze medals around their young necks, rewards for having landed tricks on their skateboards ...

In 1832, Tatsu Takayama made a defiant climb up to the top of Mount Fuji dressed as a man. This is the story of her historic ...

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

As the Tokyo International Film Festival starts its 2025 edition, chair Ando Hiroyasu is steering the event toward a future ...

Art & Education at the Hoyt’s newest exhibit, “Floating Beauty: Women in the Art of Ukiyo-e,” will be display from Nov. 18 ...

The previous leader was forced to resign over remarks he made about women. LONDON and TOKYO -- The Tokyo Olympics organizing committee announced Thursday that Seiko Hashimoto has been appointed ...

Flat broke and working multiple jobs she hates to support her two children, an Osaka woman in Tokyo takes drastic measures to ...

The door to the Swallowtail opens and there stands Saionji, good man that he is, as skilled a butler who ever buttled. He takes our coats and bags and shimmers away, leading us down the corridor past ...