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

Janice Silva discusses her insatiable hunger to get better and better, team-mates Ana Catarina and Fifo, and Portugal’s FIFA Futsal Women’s World Cup hopes.

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The Tokyo District Court decided on Oct. 23 that a man working at Sagawa Express Co. must pay 220,000 yen (about $1,440) to a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump arrived on Monday in Japan, where he’ll meet new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for the first time ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has arrived in Japan, where he’ll meet new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for the first time. The ...

Japanese inflation accelerated last month, official data showed Friday, ahead of a maiden policy speech by new Prime Minister ...

Fuku Amagawa is 102 years old and still works at her family's ramen restaurant, Ginkatei, in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. She ...

Former Olympic gymnast MyKayla Skinner transformed controversy into advocacy, joining XX-XY Athletics to protect women's ...

Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was chosen as Japan's first female prime minister on Tuesday, shattering the political ...

Sanae Takaichi, a fan of Iron Maiden, had an improbable rise to power. Like her mentor, Shinzo Abe, she is expected to lead ...

Japan appears poised to select a new leader, and this will likely shatter the country’s longstanding glass ceiling: Sanae Takaichi is all but guaranteed to be chosen as Japan’s next prime minister, ...