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Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Oct 15, 2015
Group petitions for revisions to labor laws to help keep new mothers in work
A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization fighting matahara, workplace discrimination against pregnant women and the intimidation of those trying for a child, is seeking revisions to the child care leave law on the grounds that it discriminates against nonregular workers.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues
Oct 1, 2015
Neither here nor there: Stretched between Nigeria and Japan, family ties fray
This is the last of a two-part series on Japanese-Nigerian families torn between Asia and Africa. The first part can be found here.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 28, 2015
Boehner likens Republican hard-liners to unrealistic 'false prophets' who can't deliver
Departing U.S. House Speaker John Boehner took aim at hard-liners in his Republican Party whom he likened to "false prophets" who promise more than they can deliver on issues such as cutting off federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 25, 2015
Pope to divided Congress: Welcome immigrants, end poverty, protect human life in all stages
Pope Francis challenged a divided U.S. Congress to do more to welcome immigrants and conquer poverty through a fairer distribution of wealth in a passionate, historic address that confronted America's thorniest political problems.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2015
Ted Cruz hopes to press quest to defund Planned Parenthood by forcing Saturday session
Will Texas Sen. Ted Cruz be the Grinch that stole the weekend again?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Sep 23, 2015
Neither here nor there: the families torn between Nigeria and Japan
Caught between instability in Nigeria and isolation in Japan, African immigrants fear the loss of their children's love.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 10, 2015
Shutdown scenario looms again as Republicans look for way to cut funds to Planned Parenthood
Congressional Republicans showed no signs on Wednesday of having a clear plan for averting a U.S. government shutdown in three weeks over funding for Planned Parenthood, though senior party leaders have made clear they want to avoid that scenario.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 20, 2015
Poll finds Americans back federal funds Planned Parenthood, despite bad press
Americans broadly support providing federal funding for free women's health exams, screenings and contraception services, a Reuters/Ipsos poll has found, suggesting risks for Republicans criticizing Planned Parenthood as part of the 2016 campaigns.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 18, 2015
Nursery schools in Japan face tough choices
Japan has to be careful that the growth in the number of nursery schools does not come at the cost of professional staffing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 30, 2015
Abortion gripe spurs Senate Republicans to try to divert Planned Parenthood funds
Senate Republicans seeking to cut all funding to reproductive health group Planned Parenthood over the alleged sale of aborted fetal tissue offered on Wednesday to divert the money to other providers of women's health.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2015
Metro area sees fewer children on nursery school waiting list
The number of children in Tokyo who were still waiting to enter nursery schools as of April has decreased from the year before for the first time in three years, NHK reported Tuesday, citing Tokyo Metropolitan Government data.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 16, 2015
Planned Parenthood use of aborted fetus tissue targeted by Congress probe
Republican U.S. congressional leaders on Wednesday launched an investigation of Planned Parenthood after a video implying it sells the organs of aborted fetuses was released on the Internet. The reproductive health group said the video is false.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 10, 2015
Study links Prozac, Paxil use with birth defects
A sweeping government study of thousands of women has found links between the older antidepressants Prozac and Paxil and birth defects but has cleared other popular treatments in the class, including Celexa, Lexapro and Pfizer's Zoloft, which is the subject of a major lawsuit over birth defect claims....
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 9, 2015
U.S. court: citizenship law's gender differences unconstitutional
A U.S. law that treats mothers and fathers differently in determining whether their foreign-born children may claim U.S. citizenship is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, four years after the U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 on the issue.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Jun 17, 2015
A mother's ordeal, passed down as an anti-war lesson
A daughter stays true to the anti-war message left in her mother's harrowing account of the Battle of Okinawa.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 14, 2015
Suspect killed after attack on Dallas police headquarters
A man who attacked the headquarters of the Dallas Police Department with gunfire and explosives early on Saturday was killed by police snipers during a standoff, authorities said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 7, 2015
Peruvian women seek state apology over forced sterilization under Fujimori
In the 1990s, government health workers went from door to door to coax, cajole and bully women in a farming community in Peru's highlands to come with them for free medical treatment.

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