A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes ...

Japan may have its first ever female prime minister, but her government’s attempts to avoid a royal succession crisis are making the chances of a woman taking the imperial throne ever slimmer.

Sanae Takaichi, newly-elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), speaks during a news conference at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. The big moment for ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kim Elsesser covers issues that impact women in the workplace. Sanae Takaichi made history today when she became Japan’s first ...

Japan's royal succession crisis deepens as a scholar calls the ban on female emperors 'plainly misogyny' while the imperial ...

When Seiko Noda entered Japan’s parliament in 1993 as the first woman elected to the lower house from the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, she was dismayed to find no women’s restroom. The ...