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Support for Childcare

Support systems provided by JAXA

Childcare support at JAXA

For more detail information such as special leave and working hours.please check here.

On-site nursery school

  • Hoshinoko Nursery School

    Hoshinoko Nursery School is an employer-provided nursery school opened in the Tsukuba Space Center in April 2012 as part of the support provided to JAXA employees that would ensure the healthy balance between meeting the demands of work and childcare. Hoshinoko Nursery School has a maximum admission capacity of 18 children (from 57 days old to the age before children attend elementary school) of JAXA employees and fulltime partner-employees at the Tsukuba Space Center (i.e., temporary workers and employees from subcontracting companies). This school provides children with a rich natural environment as a nursing environment where they could explore freely and easily. The target users of Hoshinoko Nursery School are the employees of JAXA and fulltime partner-employees at the Tsukuba Space Center.

  • Soranoko Nursery School

    Soranoko Nursery School opened in April 2018. With the support of Company-led Childcare Project by the Cabinet Office*, this school was established to provide an ideal working environment for all the employees to fully exercise their abilities while juggling career and child-rearing. In addition to children of JAXA’s employees, offspring of employees of other national institutions with the contract to use the school and residents can enter this nursing school. The school can accept up to 10 children aged 57 days to 6 years.

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    (* The project is aimed to expand childcare services to match the needs of various working styles, to provide a balanced environment to work and rear children, and to reduce the number of children waiting to enroll in nursery schools.)

Initiatives

Male employees who take childcare leave at JAXA have slightly increased and accounted for 38.7% in fisical year 2022.(We have only 17.9% in fiscal year 2021.)
We have interviewed to the male employees who have taken childcare leave and asked their actual situations. We hope this will be helpful for both men and women, especially employees who wish to take childcare leave, as well as their bosses/colleague who were asked for advice from their subordinates about childcare leave.

In addition, we hold a monthly Luncheon with child-rearing discussions during lunch at our Tsukuba, Tokyo, Sagamihara, and Chofu offices. Various individuals who are currently raising children, have experienced child-rearing, or want to gather information for future child-rearing plans, can casually participate in this discussion and exchange information on child-rearing.

Cases for Work and Childcare Balance:

Case 1 : Mrs. H., who works for the head office of the Satellite Applications Mission Directorate I (Updated July 1, 2014)

Case 2 : N, (Male), Finance Division (Updated September 1, 2014)

Case 3 : K, (Male), Space Technology Department (Updated August 1, 2015)

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