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京都・八幡市長が女児出産 産休中、「応援に感謝」
第一子となる女児を出産した京都府八幡市の川田翔子市長京都府八幡市は16日、産休中の川田翔子市長が15日に第1子となる女児を出産したと明らかにした。 Shoko Kawata, the 36-year-old mayor of the city of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, who is believed to be the first sitting female local government chief in Japan to take maternity leave, gave birth to her first child, a baby girl, on Tuesday, the city government said Wednesday.
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