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

Japan’s most iconic truck might be the tiny white trucks that farmers use to navigate their rice fields. But Japanese Prime ...

At last, the "glass ceiling" has been broken and Japan has its first female prime minister. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ...

and the country’s first female prime minister, captured during an earlier public appearance. Her rise in 2025 symbolized both ...

After Sanae Takaichi took office as Japan's first woman prime minister, AFP spoke to some of her younger counterparts who ...

Takaichi replaces Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum and wrangling since the Liberal ...

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As Sanae Takaichi creates history as the first woman Prime Minister of Japan, here's everything to know about her husband, Taku Yamamoto.

Sanae Takaichi was named Japan's first woman prime minister Tuesday, with the social conservative naming just two other women ...

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

TOKYO (AP) — Share prices have soared recently in Tokyo on hopes that conservative Japanese lawmaker Sanae Takaichi, who was ...

TOKYO, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Japan's parliament failed to set a date for its vote on a new prime minister on Wednesday, after party leaders spent a day in inconclusive coalition talks. The ruling Liberal ...