http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/01/29/are-japanese-women-birth-giving-machines/ Scuba diving in Okinawa, and all things to do with Japan Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:28:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/01/29/are-japanese-women-birth-giving-machines/#comment-1366 Big in Japan | Japanese Health Minister - hold the phone, it’s happened again!!! Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:46:04 +0000 http://soldave.thedeepstop.com/2007/01/29/are-japanese-women-birth-giving-machines/#comment-1366 [...] Well, things in Japan are surprisingly still pretty heated following Health Minister, and today news has come out that he saying that it is natural for couples to want 2 children in Japan. Although Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rebuked his Health Minister for making the “birth-giving machines” comment mentioned in last week’s article, he resisted calls to fire Hakuo Yanagisawa or ask for his resignation, stating that he knew Yanagisawa’s future actions would make him regain the trust of the Japanese people. Even people within his leading LDP party were calling for his resignation, but he refused. So obviously, the thing for him to do would be to lie low for a while, and make sure he doesn’t say anything that could be misinterpreted, right? Wrong!!! [...] […] Well, things in Japan are surprisingly still pretty heated following Health Minister, and today news has come out that he saying that it is natural for couples to want 2 children in Japan. Although Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rebuked his Health Minister for making the “birth-giving machines” comment mentioned in last week’s article, he resisted calls to fire Hakuo Yanagisawa or ask for his resignation, stating that he knew Yanagisawa’s future actions would make him regain the trust of the Japanese people. Even people within his leading LDP party were calling for his resignation, but he refused. So obviously, the thing for him to do would be to lie low for a while, and make sure he doesn’t say anything that could be misinterpreted, right? Wrong!!! […]

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