More women's universities in Japan open doors to transgender women, survey finds

A Mainichi Shimbun survey of four-year women's universities across Japan has found that six schools now recognize transgender ...
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Women’s universities in Japan are slowly starting to accept trans students

More women’s universities in Japan are starting to accept trans students, marking a positive move towards greater inclusivity ...
International Monetary Fund

Japan’s gender gap

A lack of gender equality in career opportunity and long work hours perpetuate wage differences between men and women Japan is not making progress in gender equality, at least relative to the rest of ...
The Nation

Japanese Women Are Fighting Back Against Pervasive Sexism

In the 2021 elections, only 9.7 percent of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s candidates were women. (Carl Court / Pool Photo via AP) The general election for Japan’s lower house last October was ...

Japan’s sacred sumo ring is off-limits to women, even its new prime minister

Japan elected its first female prime minister last month. But, despite becoming the country’s most powerful person, there is one place Sanae Takaichi is not expected to tread — inside a sumo ring. ...
Hyperallergic

An Overdue History of Japanese Women Photographers

Takeuchi’s meditation on dissident women is at the center of I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, which references these three historical examples, though is ...