{"id":8958,"date":"2019-09-13T13:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T04:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/13\/japanese-man-sues-asics-saying-he-was-punished-for-taking-paternity-leave"},"modified":"2019-09-13T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T04:47:17","slug":"japanese-man-sues-asics-saying-he-was-punished-for-taking-paternity-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8958","title":{"rendered":"Japanese man sues Asics, saying he was punished for taking paternity leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father says he was transferred from personnel to warehouse role and given \u2018meaningless\u2019 tasks after returning from leave<\/p>\n<p>A worker at a major sportswear maker in Japan is suing his employer, claiming he was unfairly treated after taking paternity leave, in a rare legal challenge to the country\u2019s conservative attitude towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gender\">gender<\/a> roles.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old man, who has requested anonymity after suffering a backlash on social media, claimed at the Tokyo district court this week that Asics punished him for taking a year\u2019s leave after the birth of his children, in 2015 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/13\/japanese-man-sues-asics-saying-he-was-punished-for-taking-paternity-leave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father says he was transferred from personnel to warehouse role and given \u2018meaningless\u2019 tasks after returning from leaveA worker at a major sportswear maker in Japan is suing his employer, claiming he was unfairly treated after taking paternity leave, &#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":[41,88,757,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-parents-and-parenting","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958","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=8958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8959,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions\/8959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}