Women in Japan

two students stand outside the Yasuda auditorium at the University of Tokyo

Japanese student rejects tabloid’s apology for ranking women by ‘easiness’

January 9, 2019Women & Gender

Kazuna Yamamoto is a college student who started an online petition to get a Japanese tabloid magazine to apologize for an article that rated Japan’s universities according to how easy it is for men to get female students to have sex with them. She succeeded and along the way got 40,000+ responses to her online appeal.

A Japanese college graduate publicly promises that she will do her best in trying to find work during a job-hunting rally at an outdoor theatre in Tokyo.

Japanese women push back against leaning in

April 24, 2015Business