Yamasawa Rina has worked for NHK for over 20 years. As a correspondent based in Paris, she covered Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She reported from Iraq in the years after Saddam Hussein, and ...

Japan's National Police Agency said Friday that it will no longer offer skirts as a uniform for female officers after March, giving only the option of trousers for all personnel. The move comes as ...

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ABOARD JS OSUMI--Hikari Maruyama, Runa Kurosawa and Sawaka Nakano are part of an elite force: Japan’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB), meant to lead assaults from the sea in a ...

Progress is being made in creating an environment in which female members of local assemblies in Japan can balance political activities with childbirth and child-rearing, such as by clearly ...

Naomi Unemoto, who currently heads the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office, will become the nation’s first female top prosecutor when she takes office on July 9. The 61-year-old Unemoto will ...

Japan’s “lost decade” was a time of discovery for the nation’s female photo­graphers. Beyond the decoupling from commercial art that can come with economic busts, a 1986 Equal Employment ...