On April 21, 1974, she appeared on the front page of the New York Daily News when she became one of the first girls legally ...

As the Los Angeles Dodgers prepare for the upcoming season, manager Dave Roberts has dropped a hint to a potential name that ...

At this year’s London Book Fair, U.S. agents will feature works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jinwoo Chong, Laila Lalami, ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese ...

No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...

Regardless of where they end up, these young women likely have never lived in Japan before. They've spent their entire lives overseas and grew up knowing what it means (good and bad) to be a woman in ...

"I wanted to spark a different conversation around menopause, one that empowers women and embraces it as a new beginning," ...

A 108-year-old Japanese woman has been named the world’s oldest female barber by the Guinness World Records this week.

The share of women among Japan's lawmakers was 15.7% as of last December, the lowest among the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations, an Inter-Parliamentary Union report said Thursday.

A movement calling for women's clothing to include pockets is gaining traction in Japan, prompting a change in the apparel industry. Many women's jackets, pants and skirts either lack pockets or ...

On a brisk winter day, high-school freshman Rin Saito’s cleats crunch the snow as she rubs the leather of the ball against her gray and purple uniform. With each crack of the bat, she dreams of ...