Efforts to improve women's rights are facing a global backlash after decades of progress, Hiroko Hashimoto, head of the U.N. Women Japan National Committee, said in a recent interview. This ...

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At the prosecutors’ office in Tokyo, everyone makes their own copies and tea--tasks often relegated to women in a country that’s been criticized for its lack of gender equality. Twenty years ...

Kanye West sparked outrage by wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe and a Nazi swastika necklace during an interview. He announced he is moving to Japan, claiming he will rebuild his life. His actions have ...

Women and dried pollock need to be beaten every three days for better taste” – so goes an old saying that was common in South Korea in the 1960s when Choi Mal-ja was growing up in a small city in the ...

Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria called Saturday for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic rights after the fall of Bashar Assad. Some 400 people representing ...

Asian Tour: GS Caltex Maekyung Open, Namseoul CC, Seongnam, South Korea. Defending champion: Hongtaek Kim. Television: ...

Squad sizes are capped at 32 for the women’s tournament, one fewer than men’s sides are permitted to select at the World Cup ...

Among those to be shut are offices responsible for women’s issues, global health security, and diversity and inclusion.

Donald Trump and his administration have waged an all-out assault on America's founding principles over the president's first 100 days in office.

In this climate, the threats received by Ayaka Yoshida are not an isolated case, but a symptom of a broader decline in women's rights and voice in the Japanese public sphere. While this case ...