While the Japanese government struggles to raise the rate at which civil employees take paternity leave, at a municipal office near Tokyo over nine out of 10 eligible workers have taken time off for child-rearing following a change in mindset.Public employees often feel obliged to continue work instead of taking paternity leave, but not at the Chiba city office, where former mayor Toshihito Kumagai took charge of promoting awareness of work-family life balance and trained managers to show more flexibility toward their subordinates."I needed the courage to take five months off, but the time …READ FULL ARTICLE
