“blind”: A disturbing view of what children in Japan may face

For anyone with children in Japan, this short film, “blind,” is very powerful, and very scary, as it doesn’t seem all that unrealistic to imagine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2SgonaD4U0

This map by Japanese professor Yukio Hayakawa suggests that the nuclear contamination that came from Fukushima may be pretty widespread, including the Tokyo metropolitan region.

Serious child abuse cases routinely ignored by Japanese officials

 

http://moderntokyotimes.com/2011/11/18/japan-and-child-welfare-continuing-inaction-in-child-abuse-cases-in-japan/