In October 2024, the Committee urged Japan to revise its Imperial House Law to allow female succession. The current law, ...

Miyachi, president and CEO of Cartier Japan, talks about the impact of the Women’s Pavilion at World Expo and the Cartier Women’s Initiative program ...

Japanese climber Junko Tabei was part of an-woman team climbing Mount Everest. Despite almost being crushed in an avalanche, ...

Junko Tabei's summit of Everest on May 16, 1975 was not her hardest battle. It took her a lifetime to be acknowledged as a true pioneer.

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel, set in post-war Nagasaki and 1980s England, needed to be made into a ...

Historically, men have dominated the public record in mountaineering. In the last few years, the 70th anniversary of the first summit of Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay has ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Agrarian Reform of ...

OSAKA -- Osaka's beloved "Gal Mikoshi" (Gal portable shrine procession) summer tradition will make an early appearance this ...

The Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition team ... Tabei had been a symbol of social progress and women’s emancipation at the UN International Women’s Year world conference.

Foreign Minister Takeshi expressed concern over the situation in the region and conveyed his regret over the loss of civilian ...

Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho wanted to explore his childhood memories of life under the country’s military dictatorship and how that time echoes in the present in his Cannes Film Festival ...