Women's rights campaigners in Japan have expressed disappointment about the appointment of only two women in the new ...

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

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 ...

The alumni of Japan’s most prestigious university include no fewer than 15 prime ministers, seven Nobel Prize winners, and thousands of elite bureaucrats who have run this country for over a century.

Sanae Takaichi stood in Tokyo as the first woman to become Japan’s Prime Minister. Her achievement is both symbolically and ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. For over seventy years, Japan and the United States have been close security ...

After graduating from college, Obora Shizue, now in her 40s, was building a solid career at an insurance firm. But after giving birth to her first child she became a full-time mother. “I wanted to ...

Sanae Takaichi has become Japan's first woman prime minister since the country established its modern parliamentary system ...

A university library here combines a prewar Gothic building and a modern round structure, and despite the stark contrast between the o･･･ ...