She has known since she was in her 20s that Fukuoka is referred to as a city where the women outnumber the men. But when COVID-19 cases spread in spring 2020, she broke up with her boyfriend even ...

A member of the municipal assembly in this southwest Japan city was warned in writing over alleged harassment of fellow ...

FUKUOKA--Ten years after prefectural police departments across Japan started to recruit and promote more female police officers, Fukuoka prefectural police are still playing catch-up. The ...

Fukuoka Prefecture has the sixth highest level ... and was intended to help protect young women and children from sexual predators. The app allows users to see where a range of sex crimes, from ...

Women at Japanese companies are promoted to managerial positions at only a quarter of the rate of men, a Mainichi Shimbun ...

Police in Fukuoka have arrested a 54-year-old caregiver on suspicion of assaulting two female residents at a nursing home last year. Police said the caregiver, Naoko Kuchiishi, is accused of slapping ...

In 1975, known as the International Women's Year, the United Nations declared that the world would take collective action ...