Though her election is a milestone in a country that struggles with gender equality, critics say hard-line conservative Sanae ...

Adventures in the countryside can be therapeutic for women who seek peace in rural settings. Discovering little-known spots off the typical tourist trail can be captivating, especially with their ...

Sanae Takaichi is poised to break Japan’s political glass ceiling. But some worry she will maintain policies that have held ...

Gender inequality is accelerating young Japanese women's flight from rural areas to the cities, further depressing the country's already low birthrate.

Sanae Takaichi took office as Japan's first female prime minister, but her surprisingly male-dominated cabinet and socially ...

Tokyo — Japan's ubiquitous ramen shops have long served that most-proletarian of dishes at no-frills counters, where customers unceremoniously slurp and gulp their way through boiling-hot bowls of ...

Japanese colonialism is infamous for its brutalization of women, abducted and forced into sex slavery. Less known is women’s ...

Five women feature in Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s new cabinet lineup, up from the previous two and equaling a previous record, yet the influx may not point to a gender equality breakthrough in a ...