Japan gives workers paid time off to go home and have sex to save country's birth rate dailystar.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailystar.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Increasing access to infertility treatment has been a focus for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who pushed for it to be covered by public health insurance from next April.
Japan will give national public employees up to 10 days of paid leave a year to receive fertility treatments starting next January, in a bid to support couples hoping to have a baby as the country grapples with a rapidly declining birth rate.
Masayoshi Son of SoftBank was put in the dock at the annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday and grilled over governance failures after the collapse of Greensill and Katerra.
The 63-year-old defended the Japanese conglomerate’s governance structure during the 90-minute online event, saying the board was not “Masayoshi Son’s one-man show”. “I personally feel that we should pay extra attention to governance,” Son said. “We plan to manage our investments in line with compliance and other rules so that the focus is not on pursuing short-term benefits using financial engineering techniques.”
The annual meeting ended with the addition of another five non-executive members to the nine-member board.
Diese 72-jährige Milliardärin und Spiele-Entwicklerin berät den reichsten Mann Japans msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.