Hikaru Fujita, who’s running in Sunday’s parliamentary election, is a standout in a country where expectant mothers rarely ...

During a Diet session last week, Japan’s Ministry of Justice announced it had broadened a directive initially sent to all penal institutions in 2014 that effectively bans the use of restraints on ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers investigate the association between excessive weight gain during pregnancy and the subsequent risk of prolonged labor or comorbid ...