Cultural Differences: Pregnancy information

This is the cover of the June issue of Ninsugu, a popular Japanese pregnancy magazine. The cluttered layout is typical of pregnancy magazines here (and Japanese magazines in general), as is the very young, obviously not pregnant (and possibly not even capable of conceiving) foreign model. I didn't buy this issue, as I'd bought the previous one and found it completely useless. At the time I'd been really hoping for some good Japanese information on pregnancy to compare with the very good information I have access to in English. Since I wasn't getting much from my doctor and midwife and couldn't find anything useful online I figured a magazine might help, but it turns out that the one I bought was a big piece of garbage and that useful information on pregnancy in Japan is quite hard to come by.

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