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Japan’s rocky road to gender parity

Social studies textbooks in Japan's elementary schools typically show men as firefighters and office workers, and women as nurses and day care workers. | GETTY IMAGES

Social studies textbooks in Japan's elementary schools typically show men as firefighters and office workers, and women as nurses and day care workers. | GETTY IMAGES

By Michael Hoffman
Contributing writer

Nov 14, 2020

Japan’s road to gender parity is rocky and potholed. Aera magazine this month chronicles a stumbling, faltering journey.

A young father takes a month’s paternity leave. A day care center staff member greets him warily: “We usually deal with the mother.”

“Yes,” says the father, “but I’m looking after the child now.”

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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