Japan, often admired for its rich culture and unique traditions, is also a society where gender norms are still deeply entrenched. Some social rules, although informal, apply exclusively to women ...

Japan’s decision to end its contribution to the U.N.’s top gender equality body could hardly come at a worse time, both ...

In 2023, women occupied just 8.3% of senior positions in private corporations in Japan, and among the top 1,643 firms listed ...

Twenty years ago, only about 8% of Japanese prosecutors were women. By 2018, that number rose to nearly a third of newly hired prosecutors. This year, the male-female ratio reached 50-50 ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from ...