Japanese women feeling pressured by rise of perfect "mama": study

Japanese media are creating idealized images of working mothers that women may find off-putting and hard to emulate in real life, according to new research from Cambridge University.The rise of the new motherhood identity could ironically be causing women to delay starting families as they feel intimidated by the portrayals in magazines, according to the research in a new book launched Tuesday.The research forms one of several essays by recent graduates of Japanese studies examining contemporary society. In her contribution, Tianyi Vespera Xie, examines Japan's pregnancy and young mother m…READ FULL ARTICLE