Why Japan’s Leader Won’t Enter the Male-Dominated Sumo Ring

Sanae Takaichi, the first woman to lead Japan as prime minister, skipped a sumo awards ceremony, reflecting her cautious ...
CNN

Tokyo Gendai: New show features women artists as they continue to fight for the spotlight in Japan

A woman with spiky, dyed blonde hair sits submerged in a bath strewn with red rose petals. She is naked, aside from a pair of swimming goggles just visible above the water line. This is one of ...
Reuters

Japan women's soccer team clinches Olympic spot beating North Korea in rare visit to Tokyo

TOKYO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The Japanese women's soccer team won a spot at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday after beating their North Korean rivals in a match that also marked the first visit by one of ...

Project B women's basketball league to play in Tokyo in April 2027

Project B, the new women's and men's basketball league, will make a stop in Tokyo in April 2027. Tokyo is the first city the ...
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Japan's first female leader wrestles with sumo's ban on women

TOKYO — As Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has broken new ground in a country that struggles with gender equality. But she has quickly run up against a tradition that may be ...
CNN

The flight attendant who became CEO hopes more women will make it to the top

Mitsuko Tottori admits Japan has much more to do to get people like her into the chief executive seat. Tottori was named as the first female president and chief executive of Japan Airlines (JAL) in ...
Yahoo! Sports

Japan’s most electric women’s wrestling show is finally coming to America

One of Japan’s most exciting and culturally unique sports is making its long-awaited leap to the United States. Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW) — the country’s premier women’s wrestling promotion ...
Reuters

Social media inspires Japanese women to dash into rickshaw pulling

Rickshaw puller Yuka Akimoto breathlessly dashes down the streets of Tokyo under a scorching summer sun, two French tourists enjoying the sights from the back of her black, two-wheeled cart. When the ...
The New York Times

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 ...
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First ladies of Korea, Japan bond over norigae, unbreakable knots and KPop Demon Hunters

Korea’s first lady Kim Hea Kyung, left, and Japan’s first lady Yoshiko Ishiba exchange norigae, or traditional knots, they made during a friendship event at the prime minister’s official residence in ...
Time

As Japan Struggles With Gender Equality, Record Number of Women Appointed to Cabinet

Five women feature in Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s new cabinet lineup, up from the previous two and equaling a previous record, yet the influx may not point to a gender equality breakthrough in a ...