Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office

March 8,2025
Minister’s Message on International Women’s Day 2025
March 8,2024
Minister’s Message on International Women’s Day 2024
March 8,2023
Minister’s Message on International Women’s Day 2023
June 22, 2022
Act on the Prevention and the Remedy of Harm Associated with Performing in Sexually Explicit Video Productions was enacted.
June 17,2022
Participation of “Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator” promoted by World Economic Forum
June 14,2022
Current Status and Challenges of Gender Equality in Japan (May,2022)
March 8,2022
Minister’s Message on International Women’s Day 2022
September 29,2021
The Intensive Policy for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women 2021(Briefing Materials) [PDF:396KB]open a new window
March 30,2021
The Fifth Basic Plan for Gender Equality (Overview)
March 8,2021
Minister’s Message on International Women’s Day 2021
December 10,2020
Male leaders General Meeting was held in November 18, 2020
March 6, 2020
（Pamphlet) Women and Men in Japan 2020
November 5, 2019
Asia Pacific Female Journalists Exchange Program “Hasshin!” – A New Era That The Media Creates (Call for participants. Registration closes on Monday, November 25)
March 29, 2019
（Pamphlet) Women and Men in Japan 2019
March 23, 2019
The 5th World Assembly for Women (WAW!) and Women 20 (W20)
March 8, 2019
Message for International Women's Day 2019 by Satsuki Katayama, Minister in charge of Women's Empowerment, Minister of State for Gender Equality
March 7, 2019
The report “Research project on ESG investors’ usage of information on women’s advancement” is published.
March 19, 2018
（Pamphlet) Women and Men in Japan 2018
March 8, 2018
Message for International Women's Day 2018 by Seiko Noda, Minister in charge of Women's Empowerment, Minister of State for Gender Equality
March 24, 2017
（Pamphlet) Women and Men in Japan 2017
March 8, 2017
(Web site) Message for International Women's Day 2017 by Katsunobu Kato, Minister in charge of Women’s Empowerment, Minister of State for Gender Equality
September 30, 2016
(Web site) Verification of Foreign Juridical Persons Pertaining to the Promotion of Work-Life Balance based on the Guidelines for Utilization of Public Procurement and Subsidies toward the Promotion of Women's Advancement
May 16, 2016
（Pamphlet) Women and Men in Japan 2016
March 9, 2016
Male leaders General Meeting took place with more than 100 women and male leaders
March 8, 2016
Message for International Women's Day 2016 by Katsunobu Kato, Minister of State for Gender Equality
September 4, 2015
The report "Male leaders efforts to promote women's active role in Japan" is published.
August 4, 2015
Numerical Targets and Updated Figures of the Third Basic Plan for Gender Equality (as of 19 June, 2015) and Reference Indices and Updated Figures of the Third Basic Plan for Gender Equality (as of 19 June, 2015)
August 4, 2015
Women's Active Roles will Revitalize Japan's Regions (From the "White Paper on Gender Equality 2015")
March 20, 2015
（Pamphlet) Women and Men in Japan 2015
March 6, 2015
Message for International Women's Day 2015 by Haruko Arimura, Minister of State for Gender Equality
October 9, 2014
Males' Work and Life in Transition (From the "White Paper on Gender Equality 2014")
September 25, 2014
The Sixty-Ninth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations - Address by Prime Minister Abe
September 13, 2014
Speech by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Opening Session of the High Level Round Table, World Assembly for Women in Tokyo: WAW! Tokyo 2014
September 12, 2014
Opening Speech by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Open Forum, World Assembly for Women in Tokyo: WAW! Tokyo 2014
April 9, 2014
(Pamphlet) Women and Men in Japan 2013
March 7, 2014
Message for International Women's day 2014 by Masako Mori, Minister of State for Gender Equality
February 4, 2014
Learning from adversity (From Guidelines for Disaster Planning Response and Reconstruction from a Gender Equal Perspective)
January 22, 2014
A New Vision from a New Japan, World Economic Forum 2014 Annual Meeting, Speech by Prime Minister Abe
September 26, 2013
Address by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at The Sixty-Eighth Session of The General Assembly of The United Nations
August 26, 2013
Toward Active Participation of Women as the Core of Growth Strategies - (From the "White Paper on Gender Equality 2013" Summary)
January 21, 2013
(Pamphlet) Women and Men in Japan 2012
October 9, 2012
Disaster Prevention and Reconstruction from a Gender Equal Society Perspective - Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake - (From the "White Paper on Gender Equality 2012" Summary)
March 29,2012
Disaster Prevention and Reconstruction from the Perspective of Gender Equality (as of February 2012) [PDF:396KB]open a new window
November 30,2011
Promotion of "Positive Action"－Aiming to attain the target of "30% by 2020"－（From the "White Paper on Gender Equality 2011"Summary）[PDF:561KB]open a new window
September 29, 2010
The Active Participation of Women and Revitalization of Economy and Society (From the "White Paper on Gender Equality 2010" Summary) [PDF:396KB]open a new window
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