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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...

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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. ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ‘...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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