Japan's culture of overtime thwarts Abe's plans for more working moms
Hiroko Yano, who's worked 20 years at the same company, was recently told she could become a manager. The mother of three, who puts in an average of two hours of overtime a day, rejected the idea, saying she doesn't want to be stuck ...
To boost economy, recruiting stay-at-home dads
Manabu Tsukagoshi, a Tokyo-based consultant, took a month of paternity leave after his second child was born. That prompted his wife, a homemaker, to get a full-time job in the financial industry. "When someone asks why I would take such leave when my wife was ...
Many government-certified nursery schools are scheduled to open in April, but some are questioning whether some of them actually will open their doors on time. The concern stems from two factors. The first is the shortage of construction workers amid strong demand as a result ...
The opening of nursery schools scheduled for April, the start of the new business year, will be postponed in a number of municipalities due to construction delays caused by labor shortages and surges in material costs, local governments say. The delays in Tokyo and Chiba, ...
Service helps new moms juggle kids and careers
After seeing many of her friends and colleagues abandon promising careers for motherhood, Keiko Koda was inspired to find a way to help professionals stay on the corporate path after having children. In 2009, she founded AsMama Inc. to lend a hand to these women. Since ...
Roomba rules with working moms
Female-friendly shared workspace a boon for moms
Yushi Katayama began to think seriously about leaving Japan after the birth of his son, Shota, in 2012. The decades-long economic slump and poor social welfare system as well as lack of innovation made Japan less than an ideal place for him to raise his ...
