Japan’s shelters for neglected children are known for their suffocating discipline, but no one has come up with a good way to reform them in the past 70 years.
The Osaka Prefectural Police Department has developed a system to assess levels of risk in suspected child abuse cases, with a view to ensuring early detection and responses.The system, which came into use this month, will automatically show the levels of risk in four ...
Tally shows family courts suspended parental custody to prevent abuse in 83 cases last year.
The number of children referred to juvenile counseling centers in Osaka last year for alleged abuse against them rose 33.7 percent from the previous year to 8,536, keeping Osaka ahead of 46 other prefectures for the third straight year.According to the juvenile affairs division ...
The Osaka Prefectural Police arrested a 30-year-old woman Monday for allegedly lifting her 9-month-old daughter up high, then dropping the girl, causing her to suffer a fatal head injury in January.The mother, Hiromi Nasu, owned up to the charge, saying she was stressed out ...
The spike in reported cases announced by the National Police Agency on Thursday was attributed to increased awareness and enforcement.
The government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe adopted several bills on Tuesday to strengthen the involvement of family courts in child abuse cases.The bills, which are amendments to current laws, including the child welfare law, were approved at a Cabinet meeting. In cases that ...
The first in a series of selections of unpublished letters about Community stories from the year just passed.
Controversial operations in which sailors pose online as underage girls lead to dozens of NCIS arrests.
A Tokyo man has been arrested on suspicion of long-term child abuse involving his ex-girlfriend’s twin 8-year-old sons.Shuji Tomohiro, 35, is accused of throwing the boys, then 7 years old, into bushes in front of his house in Fuchu on Nov. 16, 2015. One ...
Six men have been arrested on suspicion of molestation and taking and sharing pornographic images of young boys, the Kanagawa Prefectural Police said Thursday, adding that the suspects are members of pedophile groups and victim tally may top 160.The suspects, who range in age ...
More than six months after Richard Huckle was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing scores of children, most of the families in the Malaysian communities where he lived are declining counseling and other help, police say.Huckle had posed as a freelance photographer, ...
