The Japan Association of National Universities has set a goal of increasing the percentage of female faculty members to 20 percent for presidents and vice presidents, 20 percent for professors and ...

Living alongside a close-knit group of other female service members aboard the JS Osumi, a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force tank landing ship deployed for exercises in the East China Sea ...

Akiko has never had to deflect unwarranted questions or politely decline requests to go drinking with a recruiter from a company that she is applying to join – but she knows young Japanese women ...

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Meet the world’s oldest female barber: She is 108 but the slender, white-haired Japanese woman has no plans to retire anytime soon. Shitsui Hakoishi says the formal recognition by the Guinness ...

Japan's transport ministry says the country's public pilot training college will introduce a special entrance quota for female applicants in fiscal 2027. This comes amid a pilot shortage and the ...

The centenarian, who has spent 94 years honing her craft, still serves a handful of loyal customers each month and has no plans to retire. According to Guinness World Records, Hakoishi's journey began ...

History was made at Tokyo Racecourse in Tokyo, Japan, early Sunday morning when Rachel King became the first female jockey to win a Grade 1 flat race, taking the February Stakes aboard Costa Nova ...

Japanese outlet MagMix reports that domestic message boards have been full of discourse on the topic, with some fans arguing that the casting of female pilots as MCs is “pandering” that brings down ...

she has remained relevant for more than four decades and is the bestselling female recording artist ever. Madonna earned a dance scholarship to University of Michigan but dropped out to study ...