Japan's Throwaway Children 101 East 日本の捨て児

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1. A really important video and for people who have never lived in Japan would be surprised

I just relocated to Japan. Wife and children have been there for a year. What Mr. Nagai said is sadly true in some instances.
We live in Kanagawa and one of our children (all our children are girls) has a friend who is partially deaf and her father pretty much ignores her, so she spends most of her days at our house. She's lucky, in that, at least he still cares for her.
I've never spoken to him, but some people in Korea believe when you have a child with a disability you are being punished. I wonder if he might not feel the same way.

One of our other girls has a friend who is in an institution and she has almost no friends because of it. She had none until my daughter got to school. She sort of latched on to her and they are good friends. Some of the other kids tried to get my daughter to drop her because she was not 'normal'. They failed. A few of the girls at school are friends with her too.
It isn't easy in Japan, nor is it easy in Korea for kids that are different -- 'not normal' Mine are different because their mother is mix Japanese-Korean and I'm western. But my being western intrigues some of their school friends.

Thanks for posting