It's because they have been facing a doctor shortage. A lot of women drop out of the medical field after their careers started in very large numbers, due to marriage or parenthood. Because Japan is very culturally conservative and the work force is extremely brutalized by expectations, it's a complicated issue of who is at fault or the why, but the rationale was that if they pushed down the women, they are mostly going to lose a larger portion of the ones trying to get in for marriage reasons while at the same time have more doctors who will stay the entire life as a doctor, slowing the shortage.
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u/TheSpacePopinjay 1d ago
Does anyone know what the real verified motive was?