(Bloomberg) -- Two years after Japan made it mandatory for its companies to disclose their gender pay gap, there’s little progress toward equality, with the highest-paying firms showing some of the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new prime minister appointed only two women to his 20-strong cabinet on Tuesday, down from five previously, in what a rights group said represented a "backslide" in Tokyo's ...

Japan’s female lawmakers are calling for more toilets inside parliament, turning a daily inconvenience into a pointed symbol ...

Efforts to visualize gender inequalities at the local level have been under way in countries like Britain and Japan to help ...

TOKYO, June 21 (Reuters) - Japan plans to "aggressively" push for women's participation in society, especially in politics, top government spokesperson Hirokazu Matsuno said on Wednesday after an ...

TOKYO, March 15 (Reuters) - As Japanese companies offer their heftiest wage raises in decades, women in the world's third-largest economy are hoping it won't take as long to close the vast gap in pay ...

The mainstream media has long reported on the gender pay gap in Japan, with women typically earning less than men across many industries. So much so that I often encounter foreigners who believe that ...

Japan has more elderly adults than any major nation, and it is losing nearly a million people a year. By mid-century, an estimated 750 towns and villages may vanish from the map. One of the surest ...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and female MPs are pushing for more women’s toilets in the parliament, highlighting ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

TOKYO, June 21 (Reuters) - Japan plans to push for women's participation in society, especially in politics, top government spokesperson Hirokazu Matsuno said on Wednesday, after an annual report ...