Shut-Eye Deficit: OECD Survey Reveals Japan Most Lacking in Sleep

Around half of Japanese people in their forties get less than six hours of sleep per night. A 2017 national health and nutrition survey conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, measured the daily average sleep (based on the previous one-month period) for men and women in their twenties and over.

Everything old is new for Ontario’s sex education

While children across the country enjoy the last days of summer, school board officials and teachers in Ontario are already preparing for changes coming this fall.

The new provincial government, led by Premier Doug Ford, is reverting Ontario’s Health and Physical Education Curriculum (which includes sexual education) to a version first introduced to school-aged children in 1998. Ontario students will no longer have easy access to information about masturbation, same-sex marriage or gender identity issues, all of which were identified by parent groups as being the most controversial topics from the Ontario curriculum from 2015 until now.