Childcare Support System

Expectant and nursing mothers

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	Program Details
Pregnancy-Related Disability Leave	If your physician recommends complete bedrest due to pregnancy-related disabilities, you can obtain leave for the required number of days.
Provision of Time Off for Hospital/Clinic Visits	This system provides required time off for health guidance or health checkups in accordance with the Maternal and Child Health Act.
Reduction of the Burden of Commuting for Pregnant Employees	If pregnant faculty/staff members need to adjust their commute to avoid traffic congestion, they can request to reduce their work time temporarily.
Maternity leave (before birth)	This is special paid leave that covers the 56 days (eight weeks) prior to childbirth. In the case of a multiple pregnancy, the period covered is 98 calendar days (14 weeks) up to and including the estimated date of delivery.
Maternity leave (after birth)	This is special paid leave that covers the 56 days (eight weeks) after childbirth.
Accruing childcare time (less than one hour)	A system that recognizes childcare time for female teaching staff and other staff with children under the age of 1.

Systems to support childbirth

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Leave for Childbirth by Spouse	This system provides leave to faculty/staff members whose spouse has given birth, allowing them to take care of their wife and child while in the hospital and after release, and to complete various procedures required after birth.
Childcare leave at birth	Faculty/staff who are not taking Maternity Leave (After Birth) can apply to take Childcare Leave to care for co-residing children. Upper limit of four weeks (28 days) which falls within 8-weeks from the birth of the child.

Leave and systems for childcare

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	Program Details
Childcare leave	Both male and female faculty/staff can apply to take Childcare Leave to care for co-residing children. The maximum leave period will be either until the day on which the child reaches the age of one year and six months or until the last day of April of the year following the year that the child reaches one year of age. However, the Childcare Leave period may be taken up until the day on which the child reaches the age of two years if, on the day on which the child reaches the age of one year and six months, you have applied to a nursery school but your application was not successful.
Reduced working hours for child care	A system where teaching staff and other staff can choose to reduce their working hours to provide childcare until the child enters junior high school.
Flextime system for childcare	A flextime is allowed until the child graduates from elementary school.
Sick/Injured Child care leave	This leave is available to employees with a child who has not yet reached junior high school age to provide care for the child's injury or illness or to accompany the child to for health checkups or vaccinations as stipulated in the Maternal and Child Health Act.
Subsidy for babysitter use	Assistance for the use of a babysitter, temporary daycare service or a home helper when the parent is unable to provide childcare at home due to work commitments. (yearly cap of 60,000 yen) detail
Babysitter Dispatch Service Discount Coupons	Assistance for the use of a babysitter by discount coupons when the parent is unable to provide childcare.(Available vendors are limited.)
Work-life Balance Leave	This is a leave of absence that can be taken to promote harmony between work and personal life. This leave can be used for any reason.(3 days per year)
Research support staff system	The purpose of this program is to support teaching staff and researchers whose life events- such as pregnancy, childcare etc, make it difficult for them to continue their research activities by subsidizing the employment expenses, etc. of research support staff.
Temporary daycare centers	Temporary day care rooms are available for those who are unable to care at home their children due to work commitments. It will be available at each campus on Sundays and national holidays. (except during summer and winter vacation)