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 ...

The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has hit a record high of more than 95,000 — almost 90 per cent of them women ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO: The Japanese government’s plan to offer city-based women up to 600,000 yen (US$4,200) as an incentive to marry rural ...

Japan was forced to reevaluate program that offered women more than $4,000 to move to rural areas and marry after public ...