By pledging to revitalize depopulated rural areas, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba hopes to help his party retain its majority in Sunday's general election. Over 40 percent of municipalities ...

What to read (and watch) to understand women in Japan Six books (and one film) on life in one of the rich world’s most sexist countries ...

Japan’s recent decision to halt funding for the United Nations’ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has drawn significant attention. The move ...

Japan is planning to launch a new initiative to support single women moving from Tokyo to rural areas to get married, a move aimed at addressing the shrinking female population in the countryside.

Women’s lowly status in the Japanese workplace has barely improved in decades, and the country suffers as a result. Shinzo Abe would like to change that.

It’s a start but women are still underrepresented in the male-dominated political sphere. Japan trails many other developed nations in embracing women in its national parliament.

The gender gap of all sorts in Japan continues to be disappointing, opines Kyoko Matsushita, CEO of WPP in Japan—saying action is needed and it's needed now.

Japan's countryside empties as young women set out for Tokyo Lopsided internal migration patterns risk aggravating nation's population swoon NAOKO YAMAUCHI, Nikkei staff writer October 6, 2019 16: ...

“The saddest thing in life,” runs an old Japanese proverb, “is to be born a woman.” In the feudal days before MacArthur, it contained more than a grain of truth; Japanese women then were ...

Some Japanese extremists believe the crimes against the comfort women never happened. Others would prefer to stop discussing Japan’s ugly war history in modern times.