Maco Yoshioka: Battling the postpartum blues

People | CLOSE-UP Mar 3, 2013

Maco Yoshioka: Battling the postpartum blues

by Tomoko Otake

Maco Yoshioka is the founder of Madre Bonita, a nonprofit group that offers postpartum fitness programs for women using elastic exercise balls. Yoshioka, 40, who studied sports physiology at the University of Tokyo, says she became aware of physical and mental difficulties for new ...

Yu Negoro: Documenting the gender imbalance

People | CLOSE-UP Mar 3, 2013

Yu Negoro: Documenting the gender imbalance

by Tomoko Otake

Yu Negoro, 40, is a documentary filmmaker who has delved deep into the issues of gender and sexuality in Japanese society. Her first project was a series of three short films dealing with women suffering from eating disorders, a condition Neguro suffered in her ...