“It’s really lonely being a woman who is a single parent in Japan,” says Maco Yoshioka as she recalls raising her now adult son alone. While she is grateful that she found support among family and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — The women work hard, sleeping ...

For many Japanese women, social isolation stems from deep economic problems and social inequalities that the Ministry of Loneliness will never address. Women in Japan are underrepresented in politics, ...

Japan is leading the pack in the age of singlehood. Three separate surveys conducted between 2010 and 2018 in Britain, the U.S., and Japan reveal that the proportions of women aged 18 to 24 who are ...

Say goodbye to sullen spinster stereotypes: single women are having all the fun, according to new research – or at least, more than single men. Researchers looked at data from 10 studies carried out ...

Is it really true that single women are happier than single men? The figures say they are and the reasons why this disparity is opening up are provoking some very serious arguments about what it is to ...

TOKYO — The women work hard, sleeping only a few hours a night, as they juggle the demands of caring for their children and doing housework — all while suffering from poverty. The award-winning ...