Japan’s Mothers in ‘Hokatsu’ Hunt for Day Care - NYTimes.com
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TOKYO — Ayaka Okumura was barely pregnant when she began fretting over how she would hold on to the management job that would have been out of reach just a generation ago, when Japanese women were often relegated to dead-end “office lady” jobs pouring tea and greeting guests.