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That's not the case at all. Women certainly quit their jobs due to poor maternity support and childcare services, as well as the managerial glass ceiling, but I don't know how anyone can believe that Japanese labor law would allow for the standard practice of firing women when they get married.

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Japanese labor law does not allow it. But Japanese labor law is often not upheld. Japanese law does not allow the education system to systematically downgrade the results of female students to stop them becoming doctors either, which has gone on for years.

You're referencing a scandal unrelated to your original point that sparked massive outrage when it was uncovered.

Where is your evidence that it is "established practice in many Japanese companies today" to fire women when they get married?

Through my friend Asami, mostly. To be more accurate, you are encouraged to get married, the dismissal happens when you get pregnant.

Look up the term 'matahara'.

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