Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!e34g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Paid parental leave in Japan Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 04:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 19 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.103.33.109 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1274267590 30039 127.0.0.1 (19 May 2010 11:13:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e34g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=124.103.33.109; posting-account=dFdNnAoAAACo_-792nICp6wBtnsk5ZbZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169155 My (mostly female) staff have been jabbering on about ikumen this week and have posted to the blog http://preview.tinyurl.com/29kdac6 (http://www.businessjapanese.com/news/post/2010/05/14/ JBPPe69599e7a791e69bb8e291a1.aspx) The "stay at home dad" tv dorama series seems to be one of the reasons. (for non japanese reading folk: http://tinyurl.com/24vpmkx) Funnily (and worryingly) enough, I wasn't even aware that paid parental leave even existed in Japan. Admittedly most Japanese men can't utilize it for a variety of reasons. http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/parental_2008_09.pdf (page 6 if you're lazy) Turns out only Australia and the USA don't currently seem to have paid parental leave.