Reported number of child abuse cases top 40,000 in FY 2007

Tuesday 17th June, 01:49 PM JST

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Fair dinkum! at 03:41 PM JST - 17th June

And, this number is probably double in reality. These are only the reported cases. Do they also include deaths in company of or at the hands of their parents?
outofmydepth at 03:43 PM JST - 17th June

that number is just the tip of the iceberg.
lipscombe at 08:14 PM JST - 17th June

horrendous to think that while the birth rate has been plummeting in past decade, the number of reported child abuse cases has quadrupled in past 8 years.
Patrick Smash at 09:29 PM JST - 17th June

Yeah. and Japan is nowhere near as close to identifying these cases as many other countries. Probably the most disturbing figure you can read is the number of adults (in any country) who would willingly abuse children.
serindipity at 10:01 PM JST - 17th June

But, child abuse is not only physical. Emotional and verbal abuse is just a part of the culture here. You only have to spend one afternoon in a Jp high school to see that. One form of non-physical punishment given to trouble boys is to shave their heads. Then humiliate them in front of the whole school. Parents are no different. Even little kids get a serious dose of character assassination as punishment at preschool. Therefor, it is no surprise that so many people are taking the next step to physical abuse. The saddest thing is, most of these idiots believe they are not doing any wrong. Is it possible there is a link between the emotional and physical abuse and the high suicide rate amonst teenagers and the fruitloops attacking innocents. Just an observation :(
laconic at 11:27 PM JST - 17th June

I just watched a 2 hour special on some family with 15 kids where the highlight of the whole show (the bit they play before the CM to make you stay on the channel)was a shot of the father punching his son really violently in the face. The comment from the narrator? "Even at 15 he is not too old to get a good old slap from his Dad, what a good father". This is a country of bullies, who take it all day long a work then go home and dish it out to their own children.
medievaltimes at 12:35 AM JST - 18th June

This is a country of bullies,

You are right. Bullying, power and status relationships are the norm in Japan.

There seems to be a confusion between discipline and physical beatings.
ka_chan at 12:45 AM JST - 18th June

You know the article doesn't indicate what kind of abuse or what the report considers abuse. So is there more physical abuse, sexual abuse, mental abuse, or what? Did some go down and others go up? As a tend, Japans is get more weird but this may not just be more than a local trend. Maybe it's time for a strangeness index as in particle physics.
Youdontknow at 01:07 AM JST - 18th June

This is just the 'fiscal' year figures....hate to think what the REAL figures are...all money aside and all!
Taka313 at 08:28 AM JST - 18th June

Reported number of child abuse cases top 40,000 in FY 2007

I'm going to have this story in the back of my mind when I go home tonight. I know two children who are going to get an extra hard squeeze during my "O-kaieri" hug.

Taka