Sexual health education NPO Pilcon reported that the number of consultation emails from teenagers they had received doubled during last year’s stay-at-home period. Many of those young women also have been facing unwanted pregnancies, and those who...
More than 200,000 child abuse consultations across Japan were reported in 2020 according to a survey. This is the highest number ever. Seventy-two fatalities due to child abuse were reported in 2019-2020, and 28 cases, which accounted for 38.9%...
Emergency contraception (EC), also known as the morning after pill, reduces a woman’s risk of getting pregnant by preventing or delaying ovulation. When taken within 72 hours of intercourse, this kind of contraception can prevent more than 80%...
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...