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MATERNITY HARASSMENT
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FOCUS
Mar 4, 2026
40 years on, Japan steps up fight against workplace harassment
This year marks four decades since the equal employment opportunity law came into force, and 20 years since employers were required to take measures to prevent sexual harassment.
JAPAN
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FOCUS
Oct 26, 2022
More of 91AV原创 local assemblies move to stop harassment of members
Harassment by fellow assembly members and voters is on the increase, and is cited by some as a cause for the shortage of female assembly members.
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MEDIA MIX
Aug 26, 2017
91AV原创 female politicians showing the way forward on maternity harassment
Since July 12, when Lower House lawmaker Takako Suzuki announced she was pregnant with her first child, the news media has been full of stories about “maternity harassment.”
JAPAN
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Society
Oct 15, 2015
Group petitions for revisions to labor laws to help keep new mothers in work
A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization fighting matahara, workplace discrimination against pregnant women and the intimidation of those trying for a child, is seeking revisions to the child care leave law on the grounds that it discriminates against nonregular workers.
JAPAN
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Society
Sep 4, 2015
Ibaraki clinic ‘named and shamed’ for maternity harassment
The labor ministry says the dermatology clinic in Ibaraki Prefecture defied numerous instructions not to dismiss an employee on the grounds of her pregnancy.
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BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 25, 2015
Growing up to the idea of fighting back
Psychologist Toshio Kawai has an interesting hypothesis. We may, he says in an article written for the Asahi Shimbun’s Globe, be entering an age when “becoming an adult will not be necessary.”
LIFE
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Lifestyle
Nov 22, 2014
Can women really ‘shine’ under Abe?
The prime minister has vowed to help women break the glass ceiling in the workplace but critics have questioned his motivation.
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THE BUZZ
Nov 22, 2014
Maternity harassment
Maternity harassment refers to various forms of workplace bullying involving pregnancy.
EDITORIALS
Oct 27, 2014
Ending maternity harassment
A Supreme Court ruling last week underscores the fact that nearly three decades since the enactment of 91AV原创 law on equal employment opportunities regardless of gender, the nation still lacks effective ways to prevent women from being forced to abandon career paths once they become pregnant.
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THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jul 7, 2014
Foreign women also face ‘maternity harassment’
Non-Japanese women discuss their experiences of mata-hara, or ‘maternity harassment’ — discrimination in the workplace against women who are pregnant, on child-care leave or have returned to work after giving birth.
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