Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- A note to the reader
- 1 Anthropology, policy and the study of Japan
- 2 Toward a cultural biography of civil society in Japan
- 3 Pinning hopes on angels: reflections from an aging Japan's urban landscape
- 4 Reproducing identity: maternal and child healthcare for foreigners in Japan
- 5 State, standardisation and ‘normal’ children: an anthropological study of a preschool
- 6 Child abuse in Japan: ‘discovery’ and the development of policy
- 7 Touching of the hearts: an overview of programmes to promote interaction between the generations in Japan
- 8 Death policies in Japan: the state, the family, and the individual
- 9 Embodiment, citizenship and social policy in contemporary Japan
- Index
6 - Child abuse in Japan: ‘discovery’ and the development of policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- A note to the reader
- 1 Anthropology, policy and the study of Japan
- 2 Toward a cultural biography of civil society in Japan
- 3 Pinning hopes on angels: reflections from an aging Japan's urban landscape
- 4 Reproducing identity: maternal and child healthcare for foreigners in Japan
- 5 State, standardisation and ‘normal’ children: an anthropological study of a preschool
- 6 Child abuse in Japan: ‘discovery’ and the development of policy
- 7 Touching of the hearts: an overview of programmes to promote interaction between the generations in Japan
- 8 Death policies in Japan: the state, the family, and the individual
- 9 Embodiment, citizenship and social policy in contemporary Japan
- Index
Summary
As a review of three of Japan's national quality newspapers – Yomiuri, Asahi and Mainichi – and its Kyōdō newsagency during two separate periods shows, it was unusual for more than a few days to pass in the middle of 2001 without a story appearing in the Japanese media about child abuse.
5 to 18 May 2001
5 May
Mainichi: Girl beaten to death for eating dog food
6 May
Mainichi: Random torture leaves Sayuri a vegetable
7 May
Kyōdō: Officer's wife arrested for fatally injuring colleague's baby
8 May
Yomiuri: Police arrest couple over abandonment of boy's body
9 May
Mainichi: Autopsy of toddler reveals parents' starvation tactics
11 May
Asahi: Total child abuse cases may be over 30,000 per year
14 May
Asahi: Everyone has role in preventing child abuse
Kyōdō: Aichi women pleads guilty to murdering 2-year-old daughter
17 May
Yomiuri: Poll: Babies often target of serious abuse
Mainichi: Child abuse arrests increase by 27%
Kyōdō: Child abuse soars, 16 dead in 3 months. Report
18 May
Yomiuri: National Police Agency: Child abuse cases up 30%
20 June to 10 July 2001
20 June
Kyōdō: Aichi woman gets suspended term for leaving daughter's body in icebox
21 June
Mainichi: Staggering 18,000 child abuse cases reported last year
22 June
Asahi: Reported child abuse cases up 50%
Yomiuri: Child abuse cases grow 17-fold over past decade
Japan Times: Child-killer sent up for 15 years
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- Family and Social Policy in JapanAnthropological Approaches, pp. 131 - 155Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002
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