Japanese fashion designer Kobayashi Kaori was enchanted by the beauty of the hijab while visiting Malaysia. The experience ...

I enter the changeroom with trepidation, crossing my fingers that there will be no one around. My heart rate has doubled and ...

Kimono literally means “thing to wear” – it is made up of the Japanese words ki, meaning “to wear”, and mono, meaning “thing”. Today, kimonos are mostly worn by women on special ...

As part of the ceremony, women dress up in beautiful and colourful kimonos and men wear traditional Japanese dress or a suit and tie. The age of adulthood in Japan was set in 1876, but in 2018 the ...

But even though a law aims to boost the number of female candidates, some parties haven’t set targets for the proportion of women they plan to support in the upcoming poll. Japan’s poor record ...

At around 3 p.m. one day in early July, a 35-year-old woman from Italy visited ... "Many people equate kimonos and yukata with Japanese culture," Nose says. "We want to put our effort into the ...

Join Us Published in the late 1990s, a purportedly definitive history of photography in Japan featured zero women across its 40 volumes. In the first 25 years of its existence, the country’s ...

Burdened with household chores and outdated notions about work, Japanese women get the least amount of sleep among 33 countries surveyed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Because of cultures and regions, people have misconceptions about groups of people. Stereotypes is a better word for this type of thing. When people think of Asian people, rarely do they think ...

Still, Japan is one of only three industrialized countries that sends more men than women to university. The other two are South Korea and Turkey. The Ministry of International Affairs says a ...

Japan ranked 104th out of 142 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, finishing behind the majority of developed nations.While political and economic advancement for women remain at a ...

Multiple women competing for a top political office is still rare in Japan, which has a terrible global gender-equality ranking, but Koike’s win highlights a gradual rise in powerful female ...