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 ...

It wasn’t that long ago that the concept of “Hiroshima skipping,” which refers to major musical artists skipping over ...

With their growing financial resources, 82% of women control travel decisions, and from solo adventure holidays to ...

Japan’s decision to end its contribution to the U.N.’s top gender equality body could hardly come at a worse time, both ...

Until Taliban authorities took power in Afghanistan, women like Fatima were able to freely sell their hair to be made into ...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), with generous funding assistance from the Government of Japan, ...

Stellato-Dudek, a 2000 World Junior Championships silver medalist in singles for the U.S., spent 15 years in retirement ...

An emotional Lindsey Vonn declared, "I belong on the podium," after clinching the first top-three finish of her comeback in ...

South Korea defeated Japan in extra ends to open the women's curling world championship at home Saturday. Led by skip Gim Eun ...

Olympic 1,000-meter champion Miho Takagi led Japan to women's team pursuit silver Friday at the speed skating world champions ...

The United States is attempting to drum up more interest in rugby ahead of hosting the men’s and women’s World Cups by staging its biggest ever schedule of home internationals this year.