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As part of phase one of the development of the Martin James Foundation's Asia Care Network, comprehensive studies of the care system in each country were conducted to highlight the need for developing alternative care systems across South-East Asia. This study highlights relevant data from Japan.
According to the case study, due to past difficulties with the foster care system, institutional placement is still the primary…
This Masters thesis paper, by Michael Maher King of the University of Oxford, reviews the situations of children in institutional alternative care in Israel and Japan. According to the paper, Japan and Israel are significant outliers in the global trend towards deinstitutionalisation of alternative care for children. Ninety per cent of children entering care in Japan, and eighty per cent of children entering care in Israel are placed into institutions, some of which can house over two hundred children. This qualitative research explores whether there are any shared mechanisms behind the…
This report by Human Rights Watch examines Japan’s alternative care system for children. It describes its organization and processes, presents current data on the use of different forms of alternative care and highlights the problems found in the institutionalization of most children (including infants), as well as abuses that take place in the system. The report also reviews government policies and efforts at reforms, particularly following a number of high profile abuse cases. It also examines the experience of orphans of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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17.5% of children who need care in Japan live in foster placements, while most of them are living in institutions; an expert panel of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, however, has announced a new goal which prioritizes foster care.
Japan's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has announced new targets for children in need of alternative care. While only 17.5 percent of children in Japan's alternative care system presently live in foster homes, the Ministry seeks to raise the percentage of pre-school aged children in need of alternative care living in foster care to 75 percent within five to seven years and the percent of school-aged children to 50 percent within 10 years.
An article from Japan News emphasizing the importance of promoting and expanding Japan’s foster parent system for the purpose of providing warm, reassuring environments in which children who cannot live with their parents due to abuse or other reasons can live.