INNOCENT VICTIMS

National | INNOCENT VICTIMS Mar 21, 2007

Child-guidance centers lacking: experts

by Eric Prideaux

Child abuse in Japan may be expanding faster than social workers can keep pace, but there's another side to the story as well: Many people outside the government child-welfare system are working hard to push those figures down. Meet two of those people, lawyer ...

National | INNOCENT VICTIMS Mar 21, 2007

Foster-care group aims to change the way Japan treats its children

by Eric Prideaux

When Kazuko Sakamoto found herself unable to conceive a child, she and her husband figured there was more than one way to start a family. "It was my husband who first had the idea of becoming foster parents," Sakamoto recalled with a boisterous laugh. ...