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Unfiltered on the Ground: Traveler Thoughts
Name: Masatoshi Nishimura
Hometown: Osaka, Japan
Present City: Toronto, Canada
The political issues that people care about are so different. I guess that in North America and...
Left in The Dark: Lack of support for sex workers during the pandemic pushes...
The media has covered the struggles of Japanese restaurants, bars and other service industries since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, but what...
Baby Blues: Japan’s fertility crisis
IVF treatment has come out of the shadows a bit since 2001. Like his predecessor Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has identified Japan’s baby drought as a major point of government concern. Last month Suga said national health insurance would be expanded to cover fertility treatment for couples struggling to have children (at present, it is not). These treatments can cost ¥300,000 to ¥500,000 a cycle. Many women plough through their life savings in multiple, often fruitless attempts to get pregnant.
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Unfiltered on the Ground: Traveler Thoughts
Name: Masatoshi Nishimura
Hometown: Osaka, Japan
Present City: Toronto, Canada
The political issues that people care about are so different. I guess that in North America and...
Don’t Look Back
David McNeill describes an asylum story with a happy ending – but with hard lessons for Japan.
Gloria Onyekweli came to Japan just before Christmas...
Left in The Dark: Lack of support for sex workers during...
The media has covered the struggles of Japanese restaurants, bars and other service industries since the Covid-19 pandemic began in early 2020, but what...
Japan’s indigenous Ainu: Ongoing struggle for rights as Japan confronts issues...
Long before the culture of the Ainu people took root in the lands of northern Japan during the 12th-13th century, tiny deities known as...
