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

Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

Japan's parliament has elected Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister. On Tuesday, she replaced Shigeru ...

For many young girls in Japan today, the image of Sanae Takaichi taking the helm of power as the country's first ever female leader is powerful and formative. It means a patriarchal society and a ...

Though her election is a milestone in a country that struggles with gender equality, critics say hard-line conservative Sanae ...

Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi — a Thatcher-inspired conservative with heavy metal tastes and a passion ...

Sanae Takaichi has been elected Japan's prime minister by parliament, making her the first woman to hold the office. The ...

(Image: Yumiko Murakami, co-founder of the WPower fund, the first in Japan to focus solely on supporting female founders and women-empowerment businesses) ...

Satsuki Katayama is Japan’s first female finance minister, and also one of the few in her job in recent decades that ...

Sanae Takaichi took office as Japan's first female prime minister, but her surprisingly male-dominated cabinet and socially ...

Mone Chiba of Japan has won Skate Canada with a near-flawless free skate, holding off American Isabeau Levito.

U.S. President Donald Trump lavished praise on Japan's first female leader Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo, welcoming the new prime ...