Japan ranks low in gender equality among developed nations. The first woman to lead the country is an ultraconservative who ...

Her leadership comes as the Liberal Democratic Party forms a coalition with the right-wing Japan Innovation Party.

A former economic security and interior minister, Ms Takaichi has repeatedly referred to the late British prime minister ...

Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan’s first female prime minister, after her governing party secured a crucial ...

The documentary "Diamond Diplomacy" traces Japanese and American history through the lens of baseball. Shohei Ohtani is among ...

Neo Sora talks 'Happyend', his politically charged and socially resonant coming-of-age tale set in near-future Tokyo.

The First Ski Descent on Everest’s North Face Elite American ski mountaineer Jim Morrison and Oscar-winning filmmaker and ...

An American skier made history on Wednesday as the first to descend Mount Everest's notoriously narrow north face route.

A new documentary about baseball connections between the United States and Japan delves into the sport's role acros ...

April 1945. The Pacific War had decisively turned in favour for the United States. During the waning days of that month, the ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event. Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been ...