
National May 31, 2017
The government plans to ease passport regulations to allow married women to have both their maiden name and family name included on their passports in fiscal 2019.
The government plans to ease passport regulations to allow married women to have both their maiden name and family name included on their passports in fiscal 2019.
Learning to stand up to domestic violence in Japan
Satoru Tanaka tentatively pulls from his briefcase a well-thumbed sheet of plain paper, onto which has been sketched three smiling faces along with a simple but astute message: "Daddy's promise," it begins. "Always smile, and if you feel the urge to fight, take a ...
Private country club must equalize membership rules to host Olympic golf competition: IOC
Kasumigaseki Country Club will be stripped of hosting the Tokyo 2020 Olympic golf tournament if it does not allow women to become full members, the International Olympic Committee warned on Thursday. "At some point there has to be a cut-off," IOC Vice President John Coates ...
JOC chief questioned in Olympic bid probe on France’s behalf
At France’s request, Tokyo prosecutors have questioned Japan’s Olympic committee president and others over allegations that dubious payments were made to win the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
Are female scholars taken seriously in Japan?
There is a small group of female TV personalities whose claim to fame is that they graduated from the University of Tokyo, the most prestigious institute of higher learning in Japan. Like most TV personalities, these women have no demonstrable talent, and in almost ...
Can the financial roadblock to marriage ever be dismantled?
On Dec. 20, an advisory panel assembled by the Prime Minister's Office drafted a final proposal for a bill that has a long-term goal of increasing the country's sagging birthrate. The bill's short-term goal is to promote "marriage activities" among employees of companies and other ...
Japan slides to 111th in WEF gender equality rankings
Japan's efforts to bridge the gender divide have failed to translate into substantial change, with the nation sliding to 111th in a global inequality ranking report released Wednesday. The Global Gender Gap Report 2016, an annual benchmarking exercise by the World Economic Forum (WEF), found ...
Why it pays off to hire women as managers
Research suggests that women can be better at making managerial decisions than men, a lesson Japan can benefit from.
The world has a $12 trillion incentive to accelerate progress toward achieving gender parity.
How South Korea is failing half of its population
Park Geun-hye's failure to act on this $13 billion problem hurts growth in Asia's fourth biggest economy.
'Second generation' women of equal employment law favor job flexibility
Noie Motohashi flew to the Sri Lankan capital Colombo last year, choosing an intern job at a pottery maker there over a job offered by a Japanese company. Despite the language barrier and cultural differences, the 22-year-old Tokyo art college student thought that the experience ...
Why Abe's 'womenomics' program isn't working
There is a contradiction between the demands of 'womenomics' and Abe's call for women to have more babies.