Gender

Media industry triggers #MeToo movement in Japan

Japan's #MeToo movement was sparked by a television reporter who said she was sexually harassed by the country’s highest-ranking finance ministry official. “Can I touch...

Japan’s women continue to suffer at hands of domestic violence

National campaign seeks to end violence against women  There’s an almost dispassionate matter-of-factness in the way Risa Tanaka describes how she was tortured by her...