Japan has a female candidate among the frontrunners to become prime minister in a vote this month, raising the possibility ...

Japan’s ruling party leadership election will have at least one woman in the field after Sanae Takaichi entered the race on ...

A Japanese woman who was forcibly sterilised in the ... society brighter," her sister told a press conference. Japanese Health Minister Katsunobu Kato has refused to comment on the case, saying ...

A Japanese minister has said it is "necessary" for companies to enforce dress codes that require women to wear high heels at work. Takumi Nemoto, Japan's health and labour minister, defended the ...

As of Sept. 1, Japan had 95,119 centenarians, up 2,980 year-on-year, with 83,958 of them women and 11,161 men, the Japanese Ministry of Health said in a statement. Commuters wait to cross a street in ...

Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Japanese health minister, Keizo Takemi ... particularly the heavy burden placed on women, needs to change. More than 80 percent of women take parental leave, compared ...

Women accounted for 83,958, or about 88% of the total number of centenarians in the country, which grew by 2,980 from a year ...

In the running are two formidable women: Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa ... educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment — ranked Japan 118th out of 146 countries ...

Average life expectancy for both Japanese men and women rose for the first time in three years in 2023, health ministry figures show. For men, the figure was 81.09 years, up 0.04 year from 2022 ...

Fully 37.5 percent of men and 40.6 percent of women in Japan sleep less than six hours a day on average, according to a health ministry survey in 2019. Japanese sleep an average of seven hours and ...

Favoured in media polls by younger voters and women, he has promised to call a general election that could see Japanese voters ... who has served as health and labour minister and Chief Cabinet ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday unveiled the nine candidates who will run in a Sept. 27 leadership ...