Japan’s aspiring leader drums to relieve stress. She has many reasons to reach for her sticks

Staunch conservative and longtime lawmaker Sanae Takaichi is days away from becoming Japan’s first woman prime minister, and ...

Japan's ruling coalition splits, throwing Takaichi's PM bid into doubt

Sanae Takaichi's bid to become Japan's first female prime minister was thrown into doubt on Friday when her ruling party's ...

Sanae Takaichi set to become Japan's first-ever female prime minister, and face immediate challenges

Japan is set to get its first female prime minister, and conservative Sanae Takaichi will have complex political juggling to ...

13 Top Japan Travel Mistakes That Tourists Keep Making

Japan is a mesmerizing country where the ancient meets the ultra-modern, creating a unique blend of history, technology, and ...
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Meet Japan’s “Fireball”, Takaichi Sanae, its polarising new leader

She is poised to become Japan’s prime minister, the first woman to hold the position. Her rise signals an end to the ...

Agitated bear injures 2 people in Japan grocery store as man killed in separate suspected attack

As Japan faces rising human-bear encounters, an animal trapped in a grocery store injured two men, while a separate reported ...

Japan’s first female governing-party leader is an ultra-conservative star in a male-dominated group

In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japan’s long-governing Liberal ...

Japan’s New Leader Gets a Volatile Greeting From Markets

The governing party’s unexpected choice of Sanae Takaichi as its leader and Japan’s likely next prime minister caused the yen ...

Can Japan satisfy the world’s thirst for matcha?

Matcha’s supply crunch follows an earlier national rice supply crisis and has symbolised Japan’s painful return to inflation ...

Japan's food self-sufficiency stuck at 38% in FY24/25, below 2030 goal

Japan's food self-sufficiency ratio remained at 38% in the 2024/25 fiscal year ended March 31, unchanged from a year earlier ...

The evacuation of Tristan da Cunha and Japan surrenders to China at the end of World War Two

We start with a BBC archive interview where one woman recounts what it was like to survive the earthquake and landside in 1961 following the volcanic eruption in Tristan da Cunha. Our guest is Anne ...