"Japan actually has done a really good job increasing female labour market participation," says Yumiko Murakami, co-founder ...

By bno - Tokyo Office Forbes has ranked Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi as the third most powerful woman globally in ...

TOKYO – Sanae Takaichi, a star of ultraconservative Japanese politics and a rare woman to rise in its male-dominated hierarchy, has been elected the country's first female prime minister. Takaichi, 64 ...

Japanese police say they arrested a man in connection with the alleged stabbing of two people at an entertainment complex ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new ...

Following are this year's top 10 news stories in Japan and abroad selected by Jiji Press, with the appointment of Sanae Takaichi as Japan's first female prime minister and the launch of a new ruling c ...

Japan's first-ever female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is a conservative with a traditional view of gender roles and a penchant for heavy metal music. Japan's parliament elected Takaichi on Tuesday ...

The succession law limiting ruling rights to men was implemented in 1889 under the prewar Constitution, according to AP News. Postwar, the 1947 Imperial House Law also prevented women from becoming ...

TOKYO — Sanae Takaichi made history by becoming Japan's first female prime minister in October. She must now decide whether she'll break another barrier: the taboo barring women from the sumo ring.

The milestone election of Sanae Takaichi is a symbolic victory for feminists; however, some critics have expressed concern over her ultraconservative policies Meredith Kile is a Digital News ...

TOKYO (AP) — Sanae Takaichi, a star of ultraconservative Japanese politics and a rare woman to rise in its male-dominated hierarchy, has been elected the country’s first female prime minister.