Family
- Chornobyl nuclear disaster, Fukushima, Japan, Environment, Japan disaster, Nuclear power, Nuclear waste, Family, Life and style, Animals, Waste, Pollution, World news, Asia Pacific, Energy
The Fukushima towns frozen in time: nature has thrived since the nuclear disaster but what happens if humans return?
Fifteen years after a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, only bears, raccoons and boar are seen on…
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Moving: an elegant portrait of 90s Japan through tweenage eyes
In this hypnotic, meditative film, a family’s breakdown sets a 12-year-old girl’s coming-of-age in motion as s…
- Japan, Science fiction and fantasy films, Family, Life and style, World news, Asia Pacific, Anime, Culture, Animation in film, Film
Wolf Children review – Mamoru Hosoda’s tender werewolf fable is a minor masterpiece
Childhood, single motherhood and the call of the wild converge in Hosoda’s most emotionally resonant film – a …
- Kenya, Finland, Japan, Family, Childcare, Society, US news, World news, Parents and parenting, Trump administration, Children, US politics
She compared motherhood in four countries. The US isn’t looking good
A new book examines childcare policies across the globe – and asks whether parenthood in the US needs to be so…
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Japan introduces rules to put outlandish baby names to bed
The change is designed to halt the use of kirakira (shiny or glittery) names that have proliferated among pare…
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Three things with Akira Isogawa: ‘I’m not a sentimental person except when it comes to my family’
In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the designer talks about the scissors he can’t live wi…
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Japan asks young people why they are not marrying amid population crisis
Consultation launched as surveys show people have little chance to meet partners and worry about high cost of …
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Japan’s LGBTQ+ photo weddings – in pictures
Unable to marry legally in Japan, LGBTQ+ couples are celebrating their bond in traditional kimonos, suits and …
- Superhero movies, Japan, Family, Life and style, Action and adventure films, World news, Asia Pacific, Parents and parenting, Anime, Comedy films, Culture, Animation in film, Comedy, Film
Ultraman: Rising review – endearing kaiju animation battles the monster that is parenting
Appealing superhero film saddles a kaiju fighter with an orphaned infant, who brings challenges to test supern…
- Israel-Gaza war, Charities, Relationships and sex education, Teacher shortages, Mortgages, Japan, Housing, Family, Cycling, Parents and parenting
Pa-rental guidance benefits charities | Brief letters
Charging children rent | Keffiyehs and kippahs | A well-oiled cyclist | Sex (and other) education | 100-year m…
- Japan, Marriage, Relationships, Family, Life and style, Society, World news, Parents and parenting, China
For better or for worse: is the decline in marriage actually good for relationships? | Devorah Baum
While some countries turn marriage into a patriotic act, it might just give us a radical new way to live our l…
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Rice, rice baby: Japanese parents send relatives rice to hug in lieu of newborns
Each bag matches birth weight and features baby’s face, so new arrival can be hugged in pandemic Parents in Ja…
- Japan, Family, Infectious diseases, Hong Kong, Coronavirus outbreak, World news, Asia Pacific, Parents and parenting, China
The longest holiday: parents coping with coronavirus school closures in east Asia
In a bid to stem spread of the virus, schools in Hong Kong, China and Japan have been shut for weeksCoronaviru…
- Japan, Gender, Maternity & paternity rights, Family, Life and style, World news, Asia Pacific, Parents and parenting
Culture shock: can trailblazing Japanese minister change minds on paternity leave?
Shinjiro Koizumi’s move raises hopes that more new fathers will be emboldened to stay home with their babiesSh…