Commentary / Japan Jan 2, 2019
Preventing issue fatigue on womenomics
by Yumiko Murakami
The most critical message that needs to be heard in Japan is that gender equality is an economic issue that helps both men and women live better lives.
NEWSWORTHY
Commentary / Japan Dec 3, 2018
by Richard Solomon
More Japanese women are working, but many still professionally underachieve.
Business Nov 9, 2018
It pays to listen to the the real needs of women consumers in Japan
by Yuko Takeo and Emi Urabe
The country's male-dominated businesses are starting to ditch long-held views about what kinds of products women want as female consumers flex their growing spending muscle. While the result — more goods that emphasize the practical rather than the pretty — is the way it's long ...
Business Oct 4, 2018
by Kurumi Mori, Emi Nobuhiro and Kae Inoue
Two years ago, an online rant about the lack of day care in Japan went viral on social media and seemingly started a movement, prompting working mothers to stage demonstrations in which they demanded the government take them seriously and offer more child care. Since ...
National / Politics | ANALYSIS Oct 3, 2018
Abe's latest Cabinet reshuffle casts doubt on 'womenomics' policy
by Tomohiro Osaki
While the prime minister has declared boosting the profile of professional women a top policy priority, Tuesday’s reshuffle reduced the number of female ministers to just one.
Business Sep 28, 2018
Amid labor shortage, record 70% of Japanese women held jobs in August
Women have long had fewer opportunities to pursue careers than men because of expectations they will become homemakers or focus on raising children.
National / Politics May 29, 2018
Opposition slams senior LDP figure's comment that only mothers should care for toddlers
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government came under fire Tuesday after a senior member of his Liberal Democratic Party suggested only women should raise children under three, while another again urged newlyweds to have at least three children. Abe's government has made "womenomics" — or boosting ...
National / Social Issues Mar 8, 2018
by Chisato Tanaka
The past five years of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's much-touted "womenomics" measures, aimed at advancing female economic empowerment, have shown clear-cut progress, with about 70 percent of Japanese women and girls aged between 15 to 64 now being employed or seeking jobs. Efforts to further ...
National / Media | BIG IN JAPAN Dec 23, 2017
Men still making houses as women try to leave home
by Michael Hoffman
Dogen Ogata's name is known worldwide before he knows it himself. He's 8 months old. One day last month, in all innocence, cradled in his mother's arms, he attended a session of the Kumamoto municipal assembly. Yuka Ogata, 42, is a member of the assembly. ...
Commentary / Japan Nov 15, 2017
It takes more than words to raise gender equality
by Yumiko Murakami
Japan's gender gaps in income and leadership remain stubbornly entrenched.
Commentary / Japan Nov 6, 2017
Japan is at the center of Asia's women problem
by William Pesek
It's high time that Japan, and Asia generally, turned today's embarrassing gender dynamics into an economic opportunity for tomorrow.
Business Aug 30, 2016
LDP to scrap spousal tax break in bid to get more women into full-time work
by Tomohiro Osaki
In a major policy shift, the Liberal Democratic Party plans to abolish the decades-old spousal tax break that critics say has long dissuaded wives from seeking full-time work.