When Kazane Kajiya voluntarily sterilised herself in the United States aged 27, she essentially "flipped the middle finger" at Japan's patriarchal society that had long pushed her towards motherhood.

Birth order differences in neurodevelopment emerge at 6 months, linked to reduced parental engagement for second-born children.

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Punch is the reason throngs of people are getting off a train in Chiba prefecture and following a quiet stream of strangers ...

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In Tokyo alone this Easter, more than 100 individuals will be baptized,” Cardinal Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo told Crux Now, among them a Catholic elementary school pupil and her mother, a sign of the power ...

Most women give birth in public hospitals, seeing whichever midwife or doctor is rostered on. But research shows seeing the ...

The Japanese government adopted at a cabinet meeting Friday bills aimed at introducing a system under which public health ...

Birth order has long been linked to differences in cognition, with firstborn children often outperforming their later-born siblings. Parental engagement and interaction have been suggested as ...