The order was designed to promote the Westernization of Japan just after it emerged from more than 200 years of national isolation under the feudal rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate. But women were ...

Japan, often admired for its rich culture and unique traditions, is also a society where gender norms are still deeply entrenched. Some social rules, although informal, apply exclusively to women ...

The Japanese government is offering women in the city 600,000 yen (US$4,200 or Rs 3,52,758) for marrying men living in rural areas, according to Asahi News. This is because of the imbalance in ...

Mother’s #39 (2002) by Ishiuchi Miyako, who organised and featured in Japan’s first all-women photography exhibition in 1976 Courtesy Third Gallery Aya (Osaka) and Aperture Ambivalence over ...

The number of women in Japan's Self-Defense Forces has steadily increased in the 70 years since the SDF was established in 1954, with nearly all job and placement restrictions lifted across the ...