Shiro Takahashi's Archives
【#835】Discussions on Children’s Agency Lack Logic of Education
September 27, 2021 The ruling Japanese Liberal Democratic Party is preparing for establishing a Children’s Agency and a basic children law. A panel of experts created by the government will compil...
January 14, 2020 Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare released a draft guideline on corporal punishment on December 3 before the revised Child Abuse Prevention Act takes effect in April. ...
March 4, 2019 The fatal abuse of a fourth grader girl by her parents in Chiba Prefecture has prompted the government and ruling parties to ban corporal punishment in a bill to be submitted to...
October 30, 2017 The International Advisory Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its meeting in October in Paris decided to shelve the inscript...
October 16, 2017 On October 12, the U.S. government announced it would withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The announcement came in protest to ...
September 19, 2017 The UNESCO International Advisory Committee might have been recommended by the Register Subcommittee to accept the inscription of a set of documents titled “Voices of the ‘...
【#448(Special)】Double Standard of UNESCO’s Memory of World Register
June 27, 2017 The Asahi Shimbun newspaper carried a major story headlined “UNESCO to Exclude Some ‘Political Nominations’ for Inscription on ‘Memory of World’ Register” on June 24, reporting ...
【#400】Problematic Remark by UNESCO Official on Comfort Women
October 3, 2016 On September 9, a meeting took place at the Korean YMCA in Japan in Tokyo’s Chiyoda ward aiming at the inscription of documents on comfort women for the wartime Japanese Imper...
【#391(Special)】Questionable “Comfort Women” Records Presented for UNESCO Inscription
August 5, 2016 Excerpts of a joint application for the inscription of documents on comfort women for the wartime Japanese Imperial Army on the UNESCO Memory of the World list were released on...
October 19, 2015 At its October 4-6 meeting in Abu Dhabi, the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) International Advisory Committee decided to inscribe ...