Wild Women Expeditions. The 12-day “Sacred Japan” adventure starts and ends in Tokyo, and follows in the footsteps of monks, merchants, and samurai on the ancient Nakasendo Trail in between.

The war left countless orphans and single-parent families not only in Okinawa Prefecture, but across Japan. In mainland Japan, the Child Welfare Law was enacted in 1947 to help impoverished children.

Okinawa, with a population of 1.5 million, hosts 70 percent of the American bases despite accounting for only 0.6 percent of Japan’s landmass. There are 80,000 Americans on the island , of whom ...

According to the 2020 national census, the total number of single women aged 15 to 49 in 46 of Japan’s 47 prefectures, excluding Tokyo, was about 9.1 million.