KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For Tacaquito Usui to marry his partner, Japanese law first requires him to undergo sterilisation surgery and be diagnosed with a mental disorder ...

The government in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture has awarded a transgender woman workplace compensation after recognizing her depression was the result of harassment she faced from her supervisor.

TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won parliamentary approval Friday for ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, despite U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's plan to withdraw from the 12 ...

Tokyo, Japan – When Japanese book publisher Kadokawa announced last year it would publish a translation of Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, it ...

On February 4th, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement was signed by 12 Asia-Pacific countries after five plus years of intensive negotiations. TPP countries account close to 40 percent of the ...

On Wednesday morning at AEI, Japanese Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae outlined Japan’s involvement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations as part of the country’s ongoing growth strategy and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Japan's Supreme Court has upheld a law that requires transgender people ...

When I was a sophomore in 2014 at Mount Holyoke College, a women’s college in Massachusetts, our college president announced that transgender women would be able to join our student body. I and the ...

TOKYO — Fumino Sugiyama, 36, has been with his girlfriend for the past eight years, but he’s not allowed to marry her. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

After eighteen rounds of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) concluded on July 25, most technical aspects of the agreement have been completed, leaving difficult concessions to be ...