Gender inequality is accelerating young Japanese women's flight from rural areas to the cities, further depressing the country's already low birthrate.

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

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 ...

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

(Kim Kyung-Hoon/POOL/AFP) Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected and staunchly conservative head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is expected to become Japan's first woman prime minister, but that ...

Japanese colonialism is infamous for its brutalization of women, abducted and forced into sex slavery. Less known is women’s ...

Tokyo — Japan's parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, a ...