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

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 ...

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

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

Japan recorded 350,074 births between January and June, reflecting a nearly 6 percent decline from the previous year, according to health ministry statistics. This was the lowest figure since 1969, ...

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 ...

A Nova Scotia woman has applied for a medically assisted death, saying after years of battling to receive out-of-country ...

Japan has a female candidate among the front-runners to become prime minister in a vote this month, raising the possibility that a nation known for lagging on diversity may appoint ...

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

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