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ORPHANS

Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 27, 2019
732 problematic child-on-child sex cases logged at Japanese care facilities in fiscal 2017: survey
There were 732 cases of problematic sex-related conduct between children involving 1,371 disadvantaged individuals at care facilities in fiscal 2017, a welfare ministry survey said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 16, 2018
Rally held to call for U.N. world orphans day in honor of Japanese woman who raised 3,000 kids
A rally was held Monday in New York calling on the United Nations to enact a world orphans day in honor of the wishes of a Japanese woman who raised about 3,000 orphans on the Korean Peninsula during and after World War II.
JAPAN / History
Jun 16, 2015
Woman keeps memory of war-displaced grandma alive
Hitomi Shibazaki remembers being stunned when she found her grandmother's name in a poem in her textbook during a Japanese language class at her junior high school.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jun 16, 2015
Volunteer who left China in 1946 teaches Japanese to war-displaced
The 80-year-old female volunteer looked on warmly as men and women of all ages cheered and laughed with performers on stage at a public hall in Yokohama.
JAPAN / History
Jun 12, 2015
Tokyo doctor dedicated to serving 'war orphans' from China
Dr. Hiroshi Ishikawa believes there is no one better qualified than him to treat the patients he sees.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jun 8, 2015
War orphan from China recalls day she learned her true ancestry
Reiko Nakai was shocked when her father told her on his deathbed that she had been adopted.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jun 4, 2015
29 years since leaving China, war-displaced woman still struggles in Japan
At a language class earlier this year for war-displaced Japanese left behind in China as children at the end of World War II, Tsuyako Suzuki was suddenly reminded that it had been exactly 29 years since she managed to make it to the country of her parents.
JAPAN
May 18, 2015
'War orphans' from China to be surveyed this fall
The government will conduct a comprehensive survey this fall on the latest living conditions of war-displaced Japanese orphans repatriated from China and their descendants, with the aim of easing their educational and financial difficulties, a welfare ministry official said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Dec 24, 2014
Japan's night schools offer hope of a second chance for many
Takashi Kinoshita, 73, lived most of his adulthood with a secret that until recently he wouldn't dare divulge even to his children: he was nearly illiterate.
Japan Times
JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
May 18, 2014
Icho's ethnic vitality poses future model for Japan
If Japan throws its doors open to immigrants it might start looking like a certain neighborhood in Yokohama with multilingual street signs, ethnic eateries, and a babel of languages spoken in the streets.
JAPAN
May 1, 2014
Japan's orphans neglected: HRW
Japanu2019s habit of shunting orphans and abused children to child-care institutions instead of foster parents has left thousands susceptible to mistreatment, Human Rights Watch warns.
Japan Times
JAPAN / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Apr 6, 2014
Human rights champ Doi battles social injustice in Japan
Many Japanese view human rights violations as the problems of people in a distant world, but Kanae Doi is battling to change that perception.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 2, 2014
Charity gives African, Japanese orphans a leg up
As an orphan, living on the streets of Uganda's capital city, Kampala, John Nakaswa never imagined he might one day travel to Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2014
Aging 3/11 foster folks facing health worries
Three years after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami heavily damaged the Tohoku region, many children orphaned by the disasters are in the care of grandparents or other elderly relatives who are facing health concerns that could limit their ability to continue as foster parents.
JAPAN
Dec 17, 2013
More kids on Ashinaga loans can't afford college
Financial woes are forcing an increasing number of high school students relying on loans for orphans and single-parent children to give up on going to college.

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