Japan's health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa, who made remark about women as "child-bearing machines"
in a speech on Japan's declining birthrate, said he would stay in position. (See Jan. 31)
Yanagisawa said "I want to work hard and do my best to do the job that I've been given". And he made another remarks: "Young generation has exceedingly wholesome wish to marry and have more than two children
." This has create another repercussion. Now there is no doubt this is the real intention of dignitaries of government.
If they think women as birth-giving machines, do they think men as working machine? 'white-collar exception'. The working limit of white-collar workers are excluded from Labor Standard Law: In short, unpaid overtime work
(in Japanese, 'servise zangyo') can be legalized
. I hear it's not going to be on the tapis in this year in advance of the Upper House election. Butafter the election, it will be on the tapis-I suspect.