Editorial

17:05 JST, July 28, 2025

There has been no end to cases of school teachers committing indecent acts against children, causing great anxiety among parents and guardians. Despite these circumstances, can it not be said that schools and other places of education lack a sense of urgency to tackle the situation?

It has recently been discovered that 5,480 corporations operating private kindergartens and elementary, junior high and high schools did not use a national database to check whether people they may hire as teachers have been punished in the past for indecent acts against children. The figure accounts for 75% of the corporations that responded to a survey conducted by the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry.

The database currently lists 2,698 people, including former teachers who have had their teaching licenses revoked for committing indecent acts. The database has been in use........

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