'Angel Plan': boost birthrate in next 5 years

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FGs see opportunities to reverse the trend.

Health ministry sees hopes for birthrate in next 5 years
TOKYO, Dec. 3, Kyodo --The five years from 2005 could be a good opportunity for Japan to halt the falling birthrate because women born during the second baby boom in the 1970s will reach ''childbearing age,'' ..more..

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From Kyodo News

The law requires the government and local authorities to create social and other conditions favorable to people raising children.

For example.....?

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For example.....?

Ota city council to require fathers to take paternity leave
From Jan 1, Ota city council will require male employees to take six weeks of paid leave before their babies' first birthdays and then explain what they learnt, officials said Thursday. No male municipal worker in the industrial city north of Tokyo, has ever taken leave after having a child, a personnel division official said.
"We want to get men involved in raising children," the official said, explaining there was "a persistent view in society that women should raise children." The requirement will start Jan 1. The men, who will be paid full salary, will take the leave a week at a time and will have to submit a report to the city on child-rearing afterwards. (Wire reports)

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For example.....?

Ota city council to require fathers to take paternity leave
From Jan 1, Ota city council will require male employees to take six weeks of paid leave before their babies' first birthdays and then explain what they learnt, officials said Thursday. No male municipal worker in the industrial city north of Tokyo, has ever taken leave after having a child, a personnel division official said.
"We want to get men involved in raising children," the official said, explaining there was "a persistent view in society that women should raise children." The requirement will start Jan 1. The men, who will be paid full salary, will take the leave a week at a time and will have to submit a report to the city on child-rearing afterwards. (Wire reports)

Those are government workers who generally are not working anywhere near the number of hours industrial workers are and are not the mainstay of the Japanese economy. Any bets on whether industry will be required to comply?

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For example.....?

Ota city council to require fathers to take paternity leave

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Via Chindogu.com

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MDN: Sham doctor bungles backyard abortion
An unemployed man who posed as a doctor and sliced open a woman's abdomen during a sham abortion operation has been arrested for inflicting injuries...Yamashita and the pregnant woman visited her friend's home in the city on Nov. 24, and he made three incisions in her abdomen with a scalpel.
Yamashita proceeded to stitch up the wounds but the woman experienced severe pains and bleeding, prompting the friend to call an ambulance which took her to a hospital. Hospital officials said she had suffered injuries that would require several weeks of treatment but that her fetus was safe.

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MDN: Sham doctor bungles backyard abortion.... Hospital officials said she had suffered injuries that would require several weeks of treatment but that her fetus was safe.

Boy, that fetus is gonna have some great jokes to tell when it grows up.