8% of children in Japan look after people with mental conditions or physical disabilities
Some 8.7% and 8% of children said they were looking after their parents because of their mental disorder or physical disability, respectively.
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Japanese University Team Finds Causes of Unexplained Diseases in Babies
A Japanese team led by Keio University said Friday that it has succeeded in identifying in a study using genome analyses the causes of diseases in about half of babies that had been unknown.
Nursery School Closures in Japan Hit Record for 2nd Week
There are concerns that if nursery school and certified child care facilities are closed, working parents may not be able to go to work as they will be unable to leave their children at such facilities.
Staff at Fukuoka facility for children with disabilities suspected of abuse
During an investigation where a female employee was arrested for assaulting a child with a disability at a welfare facility in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, it was discovered that several other employees were suspected of abusing the child.
Death of disabled child in Kawasaki: Child Welfare Council finds staff sleeping with disabled child to be abuse
In 2016, Masakazu Shimizu (9 years old at the time), who was a short-term admission at a support facility for children with disabilities in Nakahara Ward, Kawasaki City, died while sleeping. It was judged that the act of a female employee in her teens was “abuse”.
Anorexia Cases Up 60 percent among Youth in Japan amid Pandemic
New anorexia cases among people younger than 20 in Japan grew 60 pct from the previous year in fiscal 2020 amid the novel coronavirus crisis, a survey by the National Center for Child Health and Development showed Thursday.
“Stress and anxiety stemming from school closures due to the pandemic and other reasons might have affected them,” the center said.
Children Start Watching Tokyo Paralympics at Venues
Japan started a special program Wednesday to allow schoolchildren to view Tokyo Paralympic events at venues as an exception to the policy of holding the Games without spectators.
Former Hyogo After-school daycare worker sentenced to 3 years in prison for assaulting children with developmental disabilities, filming them naked
“According to the verdict, between March and August of last year, he repeatedly committed indecent acts and assaulted four boys who were users of the facility, in conspiracy with his colleagues.”
Fuji Rock festival gives high billing to musician who confessed to assaulting disabled children
Keigo ‘Cornelius’ Oyamada, who confessed and apologized for forcing his classmates who had disabilities to eat their own faeces and masturbate in public, will play on the ‘Green stage’ on Saturday 21st August at the popular music festival.
NPO produces booklet to help fathers of children with disabilities in Japan
The booklet, ‘ForFathers’, was produced by the Association to Support the Future of Parents and Children, a non-profit organisation made up of doctors and parents of children with disabilities.
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