Women in Power, and on the Right

The rise of women on the right is intriguing. It may also be short-lived. The steady growth of the number of women in ...
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Japanese women are wrestling with sumo’s boundaries

A version of this scene repeated itself all day in Kyoto last month as 300 wrestlers went at it in bout after bout. This was ...

Women's rights seen taking a backseat under Japan's new government

Women's rights campaigners in Japan have expressed disappointment about the appointment of only two women in the new ...

Key changes that ushered in the golden era of Japanese women's golf

Hisako “Chako” Higuchi won the 1977 LPGA Championship (now KPMG Women’s PGA) to become the first Japanese player to win an ...

Japanese 'muscle girls' challenge conventional beauty standards

With its challenge to Japan’s conventional ideals of feminine beauty, the bar, which opened in mid-2020, draws about 100 customers on average each day, the majority of them foreign tourists, and has ...

IOC moving toward ban on transgender athletes in women’s Olympic events

In the past, each Olympic sport’s international federation has been allowed to set its own rules on transgender inclusion.