AYF Fellows Mark Balmes (Philippines) and Kamilya Issaliyeva (Kazakhstan) talk about Japan's issues of gender wage gap, motherhood penalty, and the prevalent general population overwork culture.

What are the costs of being a woman and/or a mother in the modern-day Japan work culture?

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AYF Fellows Mark Balmes (Philippines) and Francesco Diegoli (Italy) talk about two of the biggest, interlinked issues of the shrinking and overworked Japanese population, and offer a portfolio of solutions and insights from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Is Japan population really shrinking and overworked?

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What are the costs of being a woman and/or a mother in the modern-day Japan work culture?

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1. Is Japan population really shrinking and overworked?