After years of resistance, more and more major beauty pageants are selecting transgender women to compete. It's shaking up ideas about inclusivity, questioning the modern world’s beauty standards and perhaps redefining gender itself.
A crucial issue cropped up at Japan's regular Diet session that convened on Jan. 23 whether Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will look to hike the politically unpopular consumption tax to cover the child policies he is trying to advance.
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia s former president and a senior security official in President Vladimir Putin s administration, said Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida should perform a ritualistic suicide by disembowelment to repent for what Medvedev called servitude to the United States.