The notoriously male-dominated upper echelons of the Japanese government were rocked this week when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the appointment of a record number of female ministers. Initial ...

A dozen women in sports bras and tight shorts stood behind a U-shaped counter at an underground bar in a busy Tokyo neighbourhood, chiselled frames on full display as they crushed grapefruit in unison ...

At an underground bar in a busy neighborhood of Tokyo, roughly a dozen women in sportswear stand behind a bar, their chiseled ...

While everyone has their own reasons for coming to Japan, a fair number of foreigners come here to teach English. In recent years there has been a shift from roughly equal numbers of men and women to ...

Open wounds: situating the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan -- The girls that never end: the infinite seduction of Tomie and Ring -- Xenogenesis: monstrous mothers and evolutionary horrors in ...

The convention of equating women’s thinness with beauty leads to malnutrition and other health problems, doctors and ...

TOKYO — Futoshi Ikeda guided Japan to the Women’s Under-20 World Cup title in 2018, and last year his team was the runner-up to Spain — reversing the outcome from the final four years earlier. Ikeda ...

TSUKUBA, Japan (AP) — A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 95 pounds to make a debut at a fashion show. But it still hasn’t cleared safety ...