Sanae Takaichi is Japan’s first female prime minister. But women aren’t permitted to enter the sumo ring, and she may skip ...

TOKYO (AP) — Sanae Takaichi made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister in October. She must now decide ...

A version of this scene repeated itself all day in Kyoto last month as 300 wrestlers went at it in bout after bout. This was ...

Sanae Takaichi must decide whether to break with centuries of tradition and step into the ring to present a trophy ...

Japanese female wrestling sensation Sukeban announced last week that its returning to Miami to host a spectacular World ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated Japan’s first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, describing her historic emergence as a testament to her decades-long contributions to governance and ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Satsuki Katayama is Japan’s first female finance minister, and also one of the few in her job in recent decades that previously worked as an official at the powerful bureaucracy. Katayama differs from ...

Artwork that is purportedly based on some leaked images of those female Doctor Doom variants we've been hearing about has ...

Today, Sanae Takaichi is the most powerful person in Japan — an ultraconservative politician elected as the first female prime minister in the country’s history, who hit it off with President Donald ...

Sanae Takaichi isn’t just Japan’s first female prime minister—she’s a gearhead with style. While most politicians settle for boring official rides, Takaichi’s heart has always belonged to a ...

Japan has entered a new political era. For the first time in its modern history, the country has chosen a woman to lead it. Sanae Takaichi, a 64-year-old conservative, has won 237 out of 465 votes in ...