Issues

Students are promoting discussions on gender equality via platforms such as Instagram and podcasting, and the mainstream media in Japan is starting to take notice.

Experts believe that many victims of sexual harassment in Japan aren't aware that what their harassers are doing is wrong. That is changing, however.

With background checks unobtainable and information about lawbreakers kept under wraps, dealing with a person's past can be tricky.

In an alarming set of numbers, data from the National Police Agency shows that 6,976 women in Japan took their own lives last year. That's nearly 15% more than in 2019, marking the end of what had been a 10-year decline in the number ...

What if the quake that hit Tohoku 10 years ago happened along the Nankai Trough to the south of Japan? Well, experts are predicting this very scenario.

The search for friendship and community among foreign residents of Nagoya has become intimately tied to environmental education and activism.

Shu Matsuo Post calls himself a feminist, but he wasn't born one. For the first 28 years of his life, he says he never tried to understand what it was like to be a girl or woman in a patriarchal society. He eventually met his ...

YouTubers based in Japan are focusing less on the "slice of life" videos that defined past content and are catering to smaller communities within the non-Japanese audience.

A minority community made up largely of women, those who have come to Japan from the Philippines have often opted to settle down here for the long term.