The average life expectancy of Japanese people is at an all-time high with women faring than men, according to the health ministry’s data for 2019 released July 31. Women in Japan now have an ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspecti ...

In 2013, recognizing the power of women's economic participation to mitigate demographic challenges that threatened the Japanese economy ... new daycare spots by 2019. These efforts should ...