Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and ...

A book of short stories about women that was a bestseller in Japan is being released in the United States in English ...

Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician, has been recognized as Japan's oldest living person, following the passing of Miyoko Hiroyasu. Kagawa attributes her longevity to a life of freedom, ...

TAKAMATSU -- A Ukrainian woman working in Japan after leaving her war-torn homeland recounted her experience walking the Buddhist pilgrimage routes in Shikoku while reminiscing about her family ...

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Mina Watanabe is co-founder of the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM) in Tokyo, which helps to focus attention on Japan’s so-called comfort women and other victims of sexual abuse.

Sure, there is a plot. The book focuses on our protagonist, Shaka, a woman in her 40s with a congenital muscle disorder living in a Japanese care home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Japanese woman living in China was attacked and injured by a man in a Suzhou subway station, Japanese media outlets said, hours after two Chinese men were seriously injured in violence in Tokyo ...