TOKYO, Japan - Japan said it would not fund a UN women's rights committee and suspended a member's visit over calls for the nation to change its male-only imperial succession rules. Chief cabinet ...

No matter the occasion, Japanese women tend to adopt a high-pitched voice in public or when speaking on the telephone. The same can be said of actresses in movies as well as news anchors in Japan.

Before prototyping the store’s signature Water-in Soap in 2012, Tanaka had 20 years of research and development experience at Procter & Gamble Japan KK, part of the U.S. entity that sells ...

Shining on the world stage, Nadeshiko Japan’s dedication to the game is a symbol of Japanese women’s football. With the vision of “Becoming the World’s Nadeshiko”, Japan Football Association (JFA) has ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — There’s a woman who travels from Washington, D.C. to Kalamazoo for a special spa treatment from Sarah McDaid. McDaid’s “head spa” inside Iris House Salon and Spa at 6641 ...

Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication. But this isn’t a nursing home – it’s Japan’s largest women’s prison. The population here reflects the aging society outside ...

Some inmates at a Japanese women's prison reportedly 'do bad things on purpose' because they prefer life on the inside. In the southern village of Ichinono, Japan, as a result of there being less than ...

Ise-Shima, Japan CNN — Aiko Ohno dives down in the cool waters off Japan’s Ise-Shima National Park, scanning the rocky seabed for urchins and turban shells. Three meters deep, she swims with ...

The problem of comfort women, a very sensitive and politically fraught historical subject that has been used as a weapon online, especially against Japan, is one well-known example. Algorithms ...

The American Heart Association is highlighting a special group of New York women to raise awareness. CBS News New York's ...