Welcome to Black Tokyo! TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan for the first time has a chance of a female prime minister in Yuriko Koike, but feminists are sceptical on whether she would do the country’s women any good.
Koike has hinted she may run in the September 22 race within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) [...]

The Mainichi Shimbun reported that “the ruling coalition and the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) have decided to start talks in the next extraordinary Diet session in the fall on revising the Child Prostitution and Child Pornography Prevention Law to strengthen restrictions on child pornography, with the aim of enacting legislation in November. The focus [...]