Category: Assisted Reproduction

by Michael Gillan Peckitt January 13, 2025 Number of comments0
Assisted Reproduction Birth Rate Japan

Tokyo to Offer Up to 100,000 Yen for Painless Delivery

The Tokyo metropolitan government will provide up to 100,000 yen in subsidies from October to residents of Tokyo who opt for painless deliveries, Governor Yuriko Koike has said. “The Tokyo metropolitan government will lead efforts to realize a society where people can have and raise children without worry,” Koike told reporters on Saturday. It will be the country’s first program to subsidize the cost of painless childbirths at the prefecture level.

by Michael Gillan Peckitt August 13, 2023 Number of comments0
Assisted Reproduction Disability Japan Technology

Legislation on Assisted Reproductive Technology Delayed in Japan

Work in Japan on developing a legal framework for assisted reproductive technology, in which a child is born using the sperm or egg from a third person, has failed to make substantive progress.

In the current situation, the right of children born through fertility treatment to know their biological parents is not guaranteed, making in-vitro fertilization using a third person’s sperm or egg is effectively impossible.