Salarymen have taken a pummeling in recent years — with pay stagnating and rising numbers of working women and mothers eroding their once-dominant position as the family's breadwinner. Those changes have affected how they are seen at home, with children respecting their mothers more than ...
Over 70 percent of women in annual survey say Japanese society is not moving in a favorable direction for having and raising children.
More children in Tokyo respect their mothers than their fathers for the first time since 1997, according to a survey by ad giant Hakuhodo Inc. The result comes as an unwelcome surprise ahead of Father's Day on Sunday. The survey, which has been conducted every 10 ...
From temp agencies to online grocery stores, an increasing number of businesses are offering services aimed at women looking for a better work-life balance. Tokyo-based staffing service provider B-style Inc. has experienced a surge in its human resources pool since the company began a service ...
New mothers in Japan can now seek help with household tasks as well as pre- and postnatal care amid a growing number of support organizations. One such group, Sai-Mama, was started by Mika Okada, a midwife who also runs Sakura Maternity Center in Saitama Prefecture. Established ...
Noie Motohashi flew to the Sri Lankan capital Colombo last year, choosing an intern job at a pottery maker there over a job offered by a Japanese company. Despite the language barrier and cultural differences, the 22-year-old Tokyo art college student thought that the experience ...
Sharing bacteria in the operating room normally is a no-no but in a novel experiment, U.S. researchers are giving babies born by C-section a dose of presumably protective germs from the mother's birth canal. Humans share their bodies with microbes — on the skin, in ...
In a democracy, attending political deliberations and assembly meetings should be a right for all citizens, including mothers with babies.
Japanese mothers with little option except to bring their babies or toddlers with them when they visit the gallery sections at prefectural and municipal assemblies are in many instances being turned away. About 40 percent of prefectural and municipal assemblies prohibit such mothers from attending ...
A consulting agency based in Nagoya is hiring Japanese mothers living abroad as market researchers for companies aiming to expand overseas. More companies are showing interest in these women, who are well-versed in consumption trends in their country of residence. Global Stage Inc., a product development ...
For pregnant women, abnormal results from certain prenatal tests may signal that something is wrong — with the moms-to-be, not the fetus, a preliminary study suggests. Very rarely, these results may indicate cancer in the women when follow-up testing shows the fetus is healthy. The noninvasive ...
Finding suitable child care facilities is a daunting task for most working families in Japan, but when it comes to children with severe medical problems and disabilities, the options are virtually nil. With a growing number of mothers working full time, the Tokyo-based nonprofit organization ...
