Japan’s sacred sumo ring is off-limits to women, even its new prime minister

Women aren’t permitted to enter the sumo ring. Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female leader, did not present the Prime ...
WTA

Hana-cupid Japan Women's Open Tennis Championships

The Kinoshita Group Japan Open, also known as the Japan Women’s Open, is a WTA 250 event played on outdoor hard courts in Osaka, Japan. 32 singles players and 16 doubles teams compete at Utsubo Tennis ...

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 LPGA major. There wasn’t another until Hinako Shibuno stunned the world by ...
International Monetary Fund

Japan’s gender gap

A lack of gender equality in career opportunity and long work hours perpetuate wage differences between men and women Japan is not making progress in gender equality, at least relative to the rest of ...
The Nation

Japanese Women Are Fighting Back Against Pervasive Sexism

In the 2021 elections, only 9.7 percent of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s candidates were women. (Carl Court / Pool Photo via AP) The general election for Japan’s lower house last October was ...