SHIBUYA109 Lab., a marketing agency by SHIBUYA109 Entertainment Co. Ltd. recently surveyed with 800 youths, consisting of 400 males and 400 females. It refers to them as the “around20”, a group of Generation Z (Gen Z) population aged...
In Japan, midwives are usually solely based in hospitals, so women can easily lose touch with them after childbirth. This also means that although midwives are equipped with extensive knowledge about postnatal care, they can’t fully offer...
Girl Scouts of Japan in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo recently released a survey covering female university students and their thoughts toward gender. Entitled, “Female University Students × Gender Survey Report 2020,” the survey was compiled by a...
Sexual violence and inadequacy in Japan has become a growing issue over the past twenty years. Although this may be true, laws in Japan have been slow to change and lag behind other global, developed nations around the world. Moreover, there are...
Social progress can feel frustratingly slow anywhere, especially when it comes to LGBT and gender equality. This is as true in Japan as it is in other countries. Sexual minorities deserve the same rights and freedoms as heterosexuals, but...
The problem with sex education in Japanese schools is that it’s often lacking real information that students can learn from. In one particular textbook, for example, the sections about body development feature characters that are fully clothed...
Gender roles can be difficult for anyone to deal with. Japanese women are pressured to focus on marriage, raising children and housework before their own lives and careers. While this can limit their options and potential, the flip side is that...
Japanese women spend seven times as much time doing housework than their male partners. According to a survey last year by Nippon.com, wives spend an average of four and a half hours doing housework during the week, while their husbands do less than...
Japan came in 121st in a recent global gender equality ranking conducted by the World Economic Forum. This means Japan ranked even worse than it did previously and is currently the lowest among the Group of Seven countries. What does this tell us...
Attitudes shape people’s actions and their expectations of others. This plays out in ways big and small, especially when it comes to gender discrimination in Japan. Gender expectations can affect career opportunities for women and even their job...