This series explores topics surrounding women who began their careers in Japan around the time of the implementation of equal opportunities employment legislation in the mid-1980s. With many now ...

Yes yes, please stop if you are starting to repeat the boring mantra “But Japan is safe and clean. Women can walk safely at night”. Ok ok, Japan is safer and cleaner compared to many Western countries ...

Four of the 8ft steel silhouettes to be unveiled for the Women in War exhibition Women who played vital roles during World War Two are to be celebrated in an exhibition at the International Bomber ...

When Britain called on the Caribbean for support in World War Two, more than 10,000 men and women crossed the Atlantic to help the war effort. WW2: Did the war introduce designer fashion to our ...

People march in Fukuoka's Chuo Ward holding bouquets of mimosa flowers on International Women's Day ... even turning away 'power couples' in Japan ...

Japan in 2014 ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which stated that disabled women have been discriminated against in many ways. After the U.N. Committee on the ...

Women remain underrepresented in the Japanese news media industry, where employees willing to work long hours have traditionally been valued as news can break anytime, anywhere. But taking that ...

March 8 (Reuters) - Japan Football Association president Tsuneyasu Miyamoto has said his country will consider bidding to host the 2039 Women's World Cup after FIFA's decision not to allow Asian ...

therefore, it does not constitute as discrimination against women," said ministry spokesperson Toshihiro Kitamura. While none of Japan's contributions to the U.N. human rights office -- about 20 ...

Eighty thousand men, women and children were killed and tens ... hours before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D-Day come to failure? documentWW2: How ...

Women who played vital roles during World War Two are to be celebrated in an exhibition at the International Bomber Command Centre. Ten women have been chosen by the centre, in Lincoln, "to ...