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It's a boy for 1st Japan Cabinet member on paternity leave

by Associated Press
| January 16, 2020 8:35 PM

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's environment minister became father to a boy and is going ahead with his planned paternity leave — still a rarity in Japan where men are under pressure to put work before family.

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