{"id":13007,"date":"2020-01-17T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/17\/japanese-paternity-leave-shinjiro-koizumi"},"modified":"2020-01-17T22:27:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T13:27:19","slug":"culture-shock-can-trailblazing-japanese-minister-change-minds-on-paternity-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13007","title":{"rendered":"Culture shock: can trailblazing Japanese minister change minds on paternity leave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shinjiro Koizumi\u2019s move raises hopes that more new fathers will be emboldened to stay home with their babies<\/p>\n<p>Shinjiro Koizumi\u2019s break from his job as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/11\/shinzo-abe-promotes-rising-star-shinjiro-koizumi-in-cabinet-reshuffle\">Japan\u2019s environment minister<\/a> began on Friday when his wife, the TV personality Christel Takigawa, gave birth to the couple\u2019s first child.<\/p>\n<p>While the daytime TV shows cooed over the new addition to the celebrity couple\u2019s family, his decision to become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/15\/japan-environment-minister-to-take-two-weeks-paternity-leave\">first cabinet minister to take time away from work<\/a> to be with his wife and son has raised hopes of change in a country where a tiny fraction of men exercise their right to paternity leave.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/17\/japanese-paternity-leave-shinjiro-koizumi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shinjiro Koizumi\u2019s move raises hopes that more new fathers will be emboldened to stay home with their babiesShinjiro Koizumi\u2019s break from his job as Japan\u2019s environment minister began on Friday when his wife, the TV personality Christel Takigawa, gave &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,77,646,88,78,1053,757,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-family","category-gender","category-japan","category-life-and-style","category-maternity-paternity-rights","category-parents-and-parenting","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13008,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13007\/revisions\/13008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}