Category JAPAN

New Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday named two women ministers to his Cabinet, down from five in the outgoing administration. Women are poorly represented in politics and business in Japan, and the world’s fourth-largest economy has never had a…

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Saturday left Tokyo for the United States on his final overseas trip before stepping down as his country’s leader. During the trip, Kishida is set to attend a summit of “the Quad” countries — Japan,…