A law in Japan bans childless women from accessing voluntary sterilisation. Now a Tokyo judge has found it "lacks rationality" and should be debated.

A Japanese court said Tuesday that a law hugely restricting women’s access to sterilisation ‘lacks rationality’, a ruling ...

When Kazane Kajiya voluntarily sterilised herself in the United States aged 27, she essentially "flipped the middle finger" at Japan's patriarchal society that had long pushed her towards motherhood.

The Government of Tonga has changed the legal age of marriage to 18, effective immediately. Previously, a person 15-17 years ...

TOKYO: A Japanese court said Tuesday that a law hugely restricting women's access to sterilisation "lacks rationality", a ruling hailed by plaintiffs as a "step forward". The Toky ...

She had what she thought was a wonderful life with the man she’d met and fallen in love with at the age of 19, until the day ...

Think about your favorite song, movie or musical. Then consider how you enjoy, watch, listen or engage with that content. The answer? Copyright. Copyright has not ...

This story originally appeared in the . The Senate State Affairs Committee voted Friday to amend a bill requiring social ...

In 2012, facing a shrinking labour force and economic stagnation, then-Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo bet on women. To ...

Okuma is the closest town to the three nuclear reactors that melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant on March 11, 2011. On that day, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami destroyed the ...

For a long time, contracts between stars and fashion houses forbade them from appearing dressed in a rival label. Today, ...