Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.octanews.net!indigo.octanews.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Paid parental leave in Japan Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 13:29:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <78ibv5pjr1qei2nv7moro0psoavk196pae@4ax.com> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.eyrie.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1274880566 25871 166.84.7.159 (26 May 2010 13:29:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.30-xen3-U (i686)) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169183 Declan Murphy wrote: > On May 24, 12:57?am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > > The 2-Belo wrote: > > > We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan Murphy > > > has exploded. Flight director confirms that: > > > >> Oh, I love not being able to participate in this thread. > > > > > >Well sure, but part of your taxes goes to financially support people > > > >who choose to breed. > > > I wonder if they'll really get around to implementing that -- this > > > > Uh, news flash; that's been the case since (at least) 1990. I went > > down to Mitaka's city hall to collect the money we got for having a > > daughter born in Japan. > Do you remember perchance how much (roughly) the payment was? And was > it lump sum?, monthly?, weekly? Lump sum, about Y400,000 (give or take Y100,000). Worth the walk in the rain. Mike