Women aren’t permitted to enter the sumo ring. Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female leader, did not present the Prime ...

As Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has broken new ground in a country that struggles with gender equality ...

Today, sumo is a modern sport with records, rules and a governing institution that celebrated its 100th anniversary in ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has broken the glass ceiling to become Japan's first female leader. She may soon face ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still ...

We tend to look back at MMA’s early days as a volatile, unpredictable and borderline unhinged collection of bizarro pugilism loosely defining the “era.” Japan’s all-women fight promotion Smackgirl, ...

Representation drives engagement, engagement determines investment, and investment reproduces patterns of representation.

With its challenge to Japan’s conventional ideals of feminine beauty, the bar, which opened in mid-2020, draws about 100 customers on average each day, the majority of them foreign tourists, and has ...