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

The creative talks about what it means to be a woman working in Japan's music industry today & the hopes she carries for the ...

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

In Japan, more people are trying to avoid drinking too much alcohol because it can cause health problems. Experts say women ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. Pedestrians cross a road in Tokyo, Japan. Sometimes, it’s the ...

Looking back on 25 years of her career, the performer shares the unexpected message she would offer her younger self today.

Victim who is ‘slapped hard’ on the buttocks chases assailant, kicks him in the belly; police respond by saying there is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. Sanae Takaichi, newly-elected leader of the Liberal Democratic ...

TOKYO — Sanae Takaichi is poised to become Japan's first female prime minister, but many of her positions are socially conservative in an often still deeply patriarchal nation. Takaichi, whose hero is ...

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

For centuries, women entering marriage in Japan have been bound by the Confucian notion of personal sacrifice for the good of the family – and that has extended to their names. Encouraged by a sexual ...