“In Japan, 70 percent of women who get pregnant leave work. Many don’t come back.

Japan’s economy is the third largest in the world. But it’s been sluggish and teetering on the edge of a crisis. The country is suffering from a massive population decline and is running out of workers.

As one solution, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been pushing for more women to enter the workforce.

But it can be staggeringly difficult for women to be accepted in the Japanese workplace.

Like in the U.S., there are all the typical pressures of being a working mom, but in Japan, there’s more.”

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