Though her election is a milestone in a country that struggles with gender equality, critics say hard-line conservative Sanae ...

Her leadership comes as the Liberal Democratic Party forms a coalition with the right-wing Japan Innovation Party.

Sanae Takaichi has become Japan's first female prime minister, a significant milestone in the country's male-dominated ...

Staunch conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan’s first female prime minister by parliament on Tuesday, in a landmark ...

Sanae Takaichi, a fan of Iron Maiden, had an improbable rise to power. Like her mentor, Shinzo Abe, she is expected to lead ...

TOKYO - Miki confessed to Chiro that he sometimes liked to “transform”, early in their relationship. Miki (a pseudonym) was born male and lived and worked as a man but liked to go out in skirts and ...

Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name — and that creates considerable problems for scientists, according to a survey of more than 7 ...

Pathmasiri-Jayasena Hara is interviewed by the Mainichi Shimbun in Fukuoka's Higashi Ward on June 16, 2025. (Mainichi/Tatsuro Tamaki) FUKUOKA -- A man who acquired Japanese nationality two years ago ...

A survey in Japan found that many people were not optimistic about their prospects of getting married, even though they wanted to do so. In a survey in Japan conducted by the Nippon Foundation, 6,000 ...

Japan is the only nation where married couples must use the same surname. Critics say it violates women’s rights and, unless the rule is scrapped, all Japanese could be surnamed Sato in 500 years.