Respected figure: Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Personal goal: to become Japan's Iron Lady. After two failed attempts, Sanae Takaichi finally achieved her long-held ambition. The 64-year-old was elected ...

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

Tokyo: Sanae Takaichi became Japan's first female Prime Minister after securing a parliamentary vote on Tuesday, October 21, ...

A woman filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a hospital in Japan that diagnosed and treated her Chinese mother with a brain tumor in 2022, claiming it illegally billed her mother three times the rate ...

Kazuhiro Noguchi, a Yakult franchise owner in Hiroshima, first introduced the delivery women in the mid-’50s. Believing it ...

Respected figure: Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Personal goal: To become Japan’s Iron Lady. It was only after two failed ...

A woman, right, front row, attends a press conference in Osaka on Sept. 10, 2025, after filing a lawsuit against a Japanese hospital that billed her Chinese mother three times the rate applied to ...