Mothers denied postpartum care in 14% of Japan municipalities: survey

About 14.4 percent of municipalities in Japan had cases in which mothers were denied care after giving birth, a survey recently showed, underscoring the country's need to address the issue as it tries to reverse its declining birthrate.The rate of rejection for reasons including a shortage of care facilities was even higher in municipalities with a population of 200,000 or more at 43.0 percent, according to the survey commissioned by the government and conducted last fall by Nomura Research Institute.With the number of babies born in Japan in 2022 falling below 800,000 for the first time si…READ FULL ARTICLE