Sanae Takaichi: Japan’s first woman Prime Minister and the ‘iron lady’ leading a new conservative era

Renowned for her relentless dedication, Takaichi proudly calls herself a workaholic and has vowed to “work, work, work and ...
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Rare woman yakuza on path to redemption in Japan, hopes underworld ‘becomes extinct’

A missing fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura’s criminal past as one of Japan’s few women yakuza. But after clawing her ...

In Search of the Yakult Lady

Kazuhiro Noguchi, a Yakult franchise owner in Hiroshima, first introduced the delivery women in the mid-’50s. Believing it ...
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A Plea for Justice for Japan’s So-Called Comfort Women

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 Tokyo ...

Japan’s first female governing-party leader is an ultra-conservative star in a male-dominated group

In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japan’s long-governing Liberal ...
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‘For the very first time I really enjoyed sex!’ − how lesbian escort agencies became a form of self-care in Japan

Since 2007, the Lesbian Girls Club has arranged meetups between its sex workers and female clients at hotels in Japan. RealPeopleGroup/iStock via Getty Images In Japanese society, prostitution is ...
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Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail instead

The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their ...

For Sanae Takaichi, Becoming Japan’s First Woman Prime Minister May Be the Easy Part

Sanae Takaichi ,who is set to become Japan's first female prime minister, faces daunting challenges—Trump among them.