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Japanese activists fighting against "maternity harassment"

TOKYO, Japan - Sayaka Osakabe, the head of Matahara Net, a group supporting victims of "maternity harassment," or pregnancy discrimination, holds a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2014, the day after a landmark decision by the Supreme Court in favor of a woman demoted due to pregnancy.

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Woman champions ban on 'maternity harassment'

TOKYO, Japan - Sayaka Osakabe, seen in this photo taken on Sept. 29, 2014, is an organizer of the "Matahara Net" campaign to counter "maternity harassment" in male-dominated workplaces. She says she has collected over 8,000 signatures on her petition to include a ban on such harassment in a bill pushed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to encourage the employment of more women and their promotion to managerial posts.

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US Air Force To Send Dozens Of F-22 Fighter Jets To The Pacific

Handout file photo dated July 9, 2018 of eight U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, sit on the flightline, , at Yokota Air Base, Japan. The United States Air Force is sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that analysts say sends a strong message to a possible adversary in China.Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii this week said approximately 25 F-22s Raptors from the Hawaii Air National Guard and from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, will deploy this month to Guam and Tinian islands for Operation Pacific Iron 2021. U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe via ABACAPRESS.COM

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U.S. awards Japanese woman for empowering women

Sayaka Osakabe, a Japanese woman, receives the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. State Department in Washington on March 6, 2015, for her fight against "maternity harassment," or the unfair treatment of pregnant working women. She said the award is "encouragement to all working women in Japan." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese activists fighting against "maternity harassment"

TOKYO, Japan - Sayaka Osakabe, the head of Matahara Net, a group supporting victims of "maternity harassment," or pregnancy discrimination, holds a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2014, the day after a landmark decision by the Supreme Court in favor of a woman demoted due to pregnancy. (Kyodo)

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Woman champions ban on 'maternity harassment'

TOKYO, Japan - Sayaka Osakabe, seen in this photo taken on Sept. 29, 2014, is an organizer of the "Matahara Net" campaign to counter "maternity harassment" in male-dominated workplaces. She says she has collected over 8,000 signatures on her petition to include a ban on such harassment in a bill pushed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to encourage the employment of more women and their promotion to managerial posts. (Kyodo)