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Parents at Chinese kindergarten ceremony horrified by pole-dancing act
Parents attending a ceremony at a kindergarten in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Monday were horrified when a scantily clad pole dancer took to the stage and proceeded with a well-oiled number in plain view of their children. The performance, part of a ...
¥2 trillion package for child care, free education in Japan wins Cabinet approval
The Cabinet approves a ¥2 trillion package to expand the scope of free education and child care services to cope with the nation’s declining birthrate and rapid graying.
A female kindergarten employee has surfaced as an arson suspect in connection with a recent series of fires at her workplace in the city of Osaka, investigative sources said Wednesday. Last month, two suspicious fires broke out at Ikusei Kindergarten in Miyakojima Ward, although both ...
Discrimination in day care is a vexed issue
Last January, the mayor of Chiba, Toshihito Kumagai, raised eyebrows when he called for increasing the number of male staff in the city's public day care program. Tending to children is still considered a woman's job in Japan, which is why pay remains criminally ...
The Sendai District Court rejects a lawsuit filed over schoolchildren in Miyagi Prefecture who were killed as their caretakers belatedly fled the March 2011 tsunami by car.
Oral proceedings started Friday at the Sendai High Court in an appeal filed by a school against damages it was ordered to pay in connection with the March 11, 2011, tsunami deaths of four pupils aboard one of its buses, and both sides also ...
A kindergarten is ordered to pay ¥177 million to the families of four children killed when their school bus was swamped by the 2011 tsunami as it was being driven toward lower ground.
Mom hopes daughter's tragic death boosts schools' duty for child safety
Clutching a handkerchief tightly in her hand, Mika Sato nodded silently and tearfully to the others who lost their children in the 2011 tsunami when the Sendai District Court handed down its ruling Tuesday holding a kindergarten responsible for the deaths. Sato, 38, was among ...
The family of a 5-year-old who drowned in a river in Ehime Prefecture during a kindergarten excursion last year will sue the operator of the school, sources said Thursday. In a suit to be brought before the Matsuyama District Court as early as July 19, ...
