Shiori Onuki is working on a life plan—actually, on more than 136,000 of them. That’s roughly how many people regularly watch her YouTube channel on sex education, which she started with the aim of giving Japanese youth the information they...
Having early conversations about sex with your children helps them learn about their bodies in a biological context. It also helps them learn why they have to take care of themselves. However, teaching your children about sex can be difficult. If...
Japan has one of the world’s lowest teenage pregnancy rates in the world; however, this does not mean that the country has escaped its own issues and obstacles as to what teenagers, especially women, run into when faced with the fact of caring for a...
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...
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...
In February, Tokyo-based mobile application developer MTI Ltd. launched a new employee benefit program for women who hope to reduce menstrual pains and premenstrual syndrome (PMS) with oral contraceptives. Using the company’s health app for...