During her time in the U.S., Takaichi “worked briefly in Washington for Patricia Schroeder, a feminist congresswoman from the ...

Sanae Takaichi is poised to become Japan's first female prime minister, but many of her positions are socially conservative in an often still deeply patriarchal nation. Takaichi, whose hero is ...

A woman in northern Japan has died after being attacked by a bear while picking mushrooms and another was missing, police and local media said on Saturday. More and more wild bears have been spotted ...

In her campaign to become Japan's first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi made a bold promise to narrow the country's wide gender gap in politics and lift the number of women in cabinet to a par ...

Max Greyserman shot an 8-under 63 on Friday to take a four-shot lead at the Baycurrent Classic in Yokohama, Japan.

The bodies of two women were found in a beauty salon/residence in Hiroshima on Monday, in what police believe may have been a murder-suicide. According to police, a nearby resident became suspicious ...

Woody Allen fell in love with Diane Keaton as soon as he set eyes on her, but took a week to pluck up the courage to speak to the woman whose stellar career he would help to turbo charge. He has now ...

As the Middle East broadly welcomes a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Iran finds itself at one of its weakest moments since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Tehran has operated its ...

The son of a former prime minister, a hardline nationalist hoping to become Japan's first woman prime minister and an experienced, Beatles-loving moderate are leading the race to take the country's ...

Police in Chikuzen, Fukuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 52-year-old unemployed man for allegedly threatening a 27-year-old woman with a pair of scissors, at a bus stop. Police said the incident ...

A monumental Supreme Court term begins Monday with major tests of presidential power on the agenda along with pivotal cases on voting and the rights of LGBTQ people. The court's conservative majority ...