

A Copywriter Takes Paternity Leave
2021-07-09 · 25 min / episode · ★ 7.0
Yōsuke works as a copywriter for an advertising agency. His wife, Aiko, informs him that she is pregnant. Due to a case, Yōsuke asks for an unusually long six-month paternity leave. Nobody at his workplace has taken a six-month paternity leave before. A few months later, Yōsuke's daughter is born.
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Koji SetoYōsuke Ugaeri
Kumi Takiuchi
Eiji Takigawa
Momoko Fukuchi
Yusuke Shoji
Narushi Ikeda
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