Japan

Women are a rare sight in Japanese politics, but 20-year-old Rinka Saito is determined to run for office one day because "you can't have true democracy without diversity."

A handful of small cities in Japan have managed to do what the rest of the country hasn’t: Elect women.

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Satoko Kishimoto finds running one of Tokyo's main districts to be a lonely job.

Female candidates in the local elections across the country this weekend face one of the world’s toughest glass ceilings

On a sweltering day in July, Yoshii Aya, still reeling from her bitter election defeat a few months prior, arrived in Kyoto with a stack of leftover business cards tailored for that bygone race.

Satoko Kishimoto sets sights on ‘radical change’ in Japan, where only 2% of local government leaders are women.