The Kinoshita Group Japan Open, also known as the Japan Women’s Open, is a WTA 250 event played on outdoor hard courts in Osaka, Japan. 32 singles players and 16 doubles teams compete at Utsubo Tennis ...

Four months before the 2011 Women’s World Cup final, Japan was devastated by the largest earthquake ever recorded in the country’s history. The earthquake triggered a tsunami causing a nuclear ...

TOKYO — A Japanese man was sentenced to death on Thursday after killing 36 people and injuring almost as many more in an arson attack on a Kyoto anime studio in 2019. The attack made the fire the most ...

More women’s universities in Japan are starting to accept trans students, marking a positive move towards greater inclusivity. Currently six establishments accept trans women, while one plans to in ...

For many Japanese women, social isolation stems from deep economic problems and social inequalities that the Ministry of Loneliness will never address. Women in Japan are underrepresented in politics, ...

In Japan, roughly one in three marriages end up in divorce. The number of divorces has been on a recent downward trend after a long period of increase, but one particular change is striking: the ...

A woman with spiky, dyed blonde hair sits submerged in a bath strewn with red rose petals. She is naked, aside from a pair of swimming goggles just visible above the water line. This is one of ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Japan scored three times from lightning breaks in the first half, once in the second and defended resolutely to trounce Spain 4-0 on Monday and top Group C at the Women’s ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Previous winners USA, Germany, Norway and Japan were all eliminated before the tournament in Australia and New Zealand reached the semi-final stage. Spain were crowned as the new FIFA Women’s World ...