The demand for babysitters in Japan is soaring amid a shortage of public daycare services for preschool children."It is very hard to book a good babysitter. It is a hard-fought battle," said a 33-year-old working mother who has used sitters for one and a half years in Yokohama, west of Tokyo.Her two children, aged 5 and 2, are looked after by a babysitter every Monday night, allowing the mother to balance her work and life."I cannot imagine my life without a babysitter," she said.As of April this year, the number of children waiting to enroll for public daycare in authorized facilities was …READ FULL ARTICLE
