It's Christmas Eve and this is the dead line, written by Kumi Tsukahara On the 25th of last month, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) announced its intention to make an erectile dysfunction (ED) treatment drug avail…

Japan Times, Aug 5, 2024 The health ministry is considering expanding the availability of the country's first approved abortion pill, the Mefeego pill pack, to allow clinics without inpatient facilities to use it.Currently, the medication …

Human Rights Now, June 28, 2024 Japan Human Rights Council Oral Statement against Sexual Violence in the Entertainment Industry in Japan - Human Rights Now Global Site Human Rights Council Oral Statement against Sexual Violence in the Ente…

It will be one year on April 28th since the oral abortion drug MephigoPac was approved, but only 3% of the 4176 medical institutions (in 2000) with doctors designated under the Maternal Protection Act are able to use it. According to Yomiu…

MHLW VITAL STATISTICS Director-General for Statistics,Information Policy and Industrial Relations Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare JAPAN https://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/database/db-hw/vs01.html References: https://www.mhlw.go.jp/engli…

The following is a provisional translation into Japanese of "Section 7: From Rights to Justice" contained in "Chapter 6: Reproductive Health and Rights as Human Rights" of Kumi Tsukahara's 2012 book "Abortion Technology and Reproductive Ri…