A child riding on his father s shoulders smiles as they stroll through a park lined with yellow autumn-touched leaves that is the typical image of a Japanese "ikumen".
In the past few years, authorities in Japan have been trying to promote policies that will address the country’s plummeting birth rate. Workaholic fathers and stay-home mothers have only made the problem worse
A child riding on his father s shoulders smiles as they stroll through a park lined with yellow autumn-touched leaves that is the typical image of a Japanese "ikumen".
Makoto Iwahashi, a consultant for Posse, a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization dealing with labor problems. Harassment and other abuses of foreign trainees in Japan are mounting, arousing criticism that OTIT, the supervisory agency in charge of the government-sponsored technical internship program, has failed in its role to oversee the program.