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The murders of 13-year-old Natsumi Hirata and 12-year-old Ryoto Hoshino in Osaka last month sparked a heated conversation in the media about the state of parenting in Japan.
Hirata and Hoshino were caught wandering the streets on security cameras during the wee hours of Aug. 13 before they were presumably picked up and killed. Neither child was homeless, and the question became: What were they doing out so late? In interviews, Hirata’s classmates said that she often went out at night and hung around on the streets, sometimes not returning home for several days.
As one policeman told NHK, parents buy smart phones for their children expressly so that they can keep track of them. Both parents and children think that if something happens to the latter they can call for help, but that doesn’t always happen, and certainly wasn’t the case with Hirata and Hoshino. A well-known children’s advocate, Kazuki Arai, says he uses Line to monitor the actions of wayward adolescents, and has found that they are subjected to violence even more than people think, but that they don’t tell anyone except their friends online. Some teen girls even text about being raped.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...ill-takes-village-keep-kids-safe#.VfVHFfmqqko
Hirata and Hoshino were caught wandering the streets on security cameras during the wee hours of Aug. 13 before they were presumably picked up and killed. Neither child was homeless, and the question became: What were they doing out so late? In interviews, Hirata’s classmates said that she often went out at night and hung around on the streets, sometimes not returning home for several days.
As one policeman told NHK, parents buy smart phones for their children expressly so that they can keep track of them. Both parents and children think that if something happens to the latter they can call for help, but that doesn’t always happen, and certainly wasn’t the case with Hirata and Hoshino. A well-known children’s advocate, Kazuki Arai, says he uses Line to monitor the actions of wayward adolescents, and has found that they are subjected to violence even more than people think, but that they don’t tell anyone except their friends online. Some teen girls even text about being raped.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...ill-takes-village-keep-kids-safe#.VfVHFfmqqko
