🇯🇵How does Japan mark What the law gives you after a child is born?

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Japan's maternity leave is written not only as a right but as a prohibition. Article 65 of the Labour Standards Act says an employer must not employ a woman who has requested leave within six weeks of her expected date of birth (fourteen for a multiple pregnancy), and then states flatly that an employer must not employ a woman within eight weeks after childbirth. Before the birth, in other words, the woman has to ask; for the eight weeks after it, she may not work even if she wants to. The only exception is work a doctor finds unobjectionable, requested by the woman herself, after six weeks have passed. Where the other six markets write down how many days one may rest, this article writes down how many days an employer may not make someone work — the subject of the sentence is the employer, not the worker. Childcare leave sits in a separate statute, and the benefit is paid out of employment insurance rather than by the employer.