Dear all
COVID19 has covered the world like a plume of huge volcanic eruptions. This is an urgent issue, especially in Japan. Fortunately, the cases in children seem not to become severe infections.
I want to share good news from Japan.
The Act amending the Child Abuse Prevention Law 2000, which includes revised several articles against corporal punishment, will take effect in April 2020. Before the enforcement of this revision, the government published the guideline for better parenting. The title of this guideline is “For parenting without corporal punishment -Towards the society supporting childcare-”.
We become a member of the states which achieve full prohibition.
I give one comment on it.
The Swedish government banned corporal punishment, including a penalty in 1979. Although the Japanese government also bans it in 2020, it’s without penalty. This is fantastic progress for our society. However, we have to clear one more hurdle to catch up with the Swedish society as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Hajime
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A dream you dream together is reality.
Guest Researcher
Epidemiology and Global Health (EpiGH)
Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine
Umeå University
SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
TEL +46 90 786 55 11
Prof. Hajime Takeuchi,MD (Paediatrician)
School of Social Welfare
Graduate School of Social Welfare
BUKKYO University
96, Kitahananobo-cho, Murasakino, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8301, Japan
TEL +81-75-366-5595 (dial-in)
E-mail: takechanespid@gmail.com
CHIFA profile Hajime Takeuchi is a professor at the Bukkyo University in Japan. Professional interests: child health, child poverty, child wellbeing. takechanespid AT gmail.com He is a CHIFA Country Representative for Japan http://www.hifa.org/support/members/hajime
