Hospitals and public health centers are so inundated with COVID-19 patients that they should be relieved of the burden of reporting new cases to the government on a daily basis as the task takes up precious resources, according to a proposal by mayors and governors from around Japan.
Academics and midwives on June 27 submitted a petition to the health ministry demanding the removal of a legal clause that requires pregnant women to obtain the consent of their spouses to have abortions.
Emma Kawawada, a filmmaker of mixed parentage, is celebrating the release of her first commercial feature “My Small Land,” which mirrors an identity crisis that she and many foreign nationals experience in Japan.
Opposition lawmakers are criticizing a proposal made by a member of a Cabinet Office study group that the nation should become versed in a controversial courtship practice known as “kabedon.”
A managing director at beef bowl restaurant chain Yoshinoya Co. was fired for saying the company’s marketing strategy for young women from the countryside was like “making innocent virgins” dependent on stimulant drugs.