Parliament will be dissolved on January 23rd and the election will be held on February 8th. That makes it the shortest campaign in Japan’s post-war history. And it comes little more than a year after ...

Japan has sent an envoy to China. They want to ease a disagreement over Taiwan, which comes early in the administration of Japan's first female prime minister. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports. ANTHONY KUHN ...

(CNN) — Japan’s prime minister has joined more than 50 of her fellow female legislators to push for more ladies’ toilets in parliament, saying recent increases in women’s representation have led to ...

TOKYO >> Japan’s highest glass ceiling shattered Oct. 21 when Sanae Takaichi received 237 votes — four more than needed to secure a majority — in the lower house’s election for prime minister. The ...

Japan’s parliament on Tuesday elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister, ending a three-month power struggle after disastrous election losses in July for ...