Dear friends,
I sometimes try to stagger my posts so that they don’t come all a once. However, as coverage of Ms. Ogata’s attempt to get the Kumamoto City Council to show more flexibility is heating up, I think I need to share the information as quickly as possible.
This particular article seems to have been written by or with the help of someone in Kumamoto:
“On-the-street interviews with Kumamoto residents produced a number of reactions, ranging from good-natured support to gruff criticism of the idea of taking an infant somewhere as baby-unfriendly as a government assembly hall.”
I was unaware of Mr. Ogata’s international background:
“Ogata, a graduate of George Mason in the U.S. and previous United Nations employee who was posted in Yemen, has said: ‘By serving as a councilwoman while raising a baby, I hope to be a spokesperson for other people of my generation who are in similar situations…Even though [child-rearing] is a societal problem, in the workplace it ends up being treated as an individual’s problem.’”
I think the article is worth reading so please do click on the link.
– Kirk
