In this country (Japan), the Child Welfare Act was amended in 2022.
The Children’s Future Strategy, which was decided by the Cabinet Council in 2023, contains content to strengthen measures to prevent child abuse.
But it doesn’t work. On the contrary, the situation is getting worse. In February last year, the director of a nursery school in Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, was caught committing harsh abuse, including hanging children upside down.
In December 2023, the Japanese government made it mandatory for nursery schools across the country to notify local governments of child abuse by their employees. It was a measure taken to eliminate the “inappropriate childcare phenomenon” of beating and abusive words aimed at young children not yet able to understand.
But it was still a decoration. At the nursery school in Yamato City, the director has been committing abusive acts.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 