But this isn’t a nursing home – it’s Japan’s largest women’s prison ... an officer at Tochigi Women’s Prison located north of ...

Chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Thursday that a visit by a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality ...

Tokyo police on Monday arrested two members of Natural, one of Japan's biggest sex worker scout groups, for allegedly introducing women to sexual service establishments. The Metropolitan Police ...

In interviews with The Independent in Tokyo, government officials and industry leaders admitted there are concerns that current trends are not sustainable. The Japan Tourism Agency, the government ...

We recommend visiting during spring ... time for skiing and hot springs. Two women walk within the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest in Kyoto, Japan. (photo via G Adventures) (Photo Credit: (photo via G ...

It’s a tradition that’s been passed down for thousands of years,” says Ohno, who moved here nine years ago from Tokyo to be an ... come to this region to visit Japan’s most sacred Shinto ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel ... Japan will also suspend a visit to Japan by committee members planned ...