Japan to give public employees paid leave for fertility treatment

Japan will give national public employees up to 10 days of paid leave a year to receive fertility treatments starting next January, in a bid to support couples hoping to have a baby as the country grapples with a rapidly declining birth rate."The public sector will take the initiative," Yuko Kawamoto, president of the National Personnel Authority, said Tuesday at a press conference, indicating she hopes the move will encourage the private sector to follow suit.An online survey, conducted in January and February, receiving responses from roughly 47,000 national public employees, showed 1.8 p…READ FULL ARTICLE