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IKUMEN

Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 19, 2016
Japanese bachelors learn the art of parenting to help find wives
Bachelors looking for love can now learn child-rearing skills to boost their chances of finding a partner.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Apr 28, 2016
House husbands gaining acceptance in Japan as gender stereotypes ease
One weekend afternoon in March, some 30 single men and women gathered at a matchmaking event in Tokyo¡¯s Yotsuya district in the hope of meeting their future partner. What was unusual was that the participants comprised men willing to become stay-at-home house husbands and women looking for such a partner....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Jun 18, 2013
Finnish diplomat pushes child-rearing for dads
For Finnish diplomat Mikko Koivumaa, being an ikumen (men who take an active role in ikuji, or child rearing) comes naturally.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Aug 30, 2011
Ikumen: raising new father figures in Japan
Maybe papa was rolling stone once upon a time, but these days he¡¯s expected to share the burden of raising the kids.
60% in Japan give up activities due to sweat, survey finds
The summer heat hits Tokyo's Ginza District on July 23.
JAL and ANA to coordinate flight schedules for first time
An All Nippon Airways airplane flies past an oil refinery as it approaches to land at Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
Young Japanese anxious as Australia slows working holiday visa processing time
Commuters disembark a tram in Melbourne in March.
Takaichi¡¯s punishing workload draws renewed scrutiny after 6?-hour checkup at hospital
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at the Prime Minister's Official Residence in Tokyo on Thursday
China¡¯s Unitree unveils ¡®Superman¡¯ robot as fervor builds ahead of Shanghai debut
A Unitree Robotics R1 humanoid robot on display at the company's booth during the Embodied Intelligent Robot Industry Exhibition in Shanghai on Aug. 12
Â鶹´«Ã½ Summer Koshien baseball tradition comes face-to-face with new climate reality
Ariake High School players greet their cheering section after winning their first game on Aug. 7.
The new world of collectible design
Nilufar, founded by Milan curator Nina Yashar, was among the exhibitors at Salone Raritas. Yashar calls collectible design ¡°a free, authorial language¡± that goes beyond function.
Young Japanese anxious as Australia slows working holiday visa processing time
Commuters disembark a tram in Melbourne in March.
At Yasukuni, the politicians followed the script, but the shrine did not
People crowd in front of Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to the war dead on the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo on Saturday.
Unrelenting Russian anti-war protesters in Japan fight through inescapable doubt
Anti-war Russians protest Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in February.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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