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Domestic violence between married couples on the rise
Study finds 1 in 6 married couples reported abuse last year, with increases the highest for defectors and multiethnic families
» This graph shows the rate of domestic violence in eight countries and the year in which the data was collected, from the top: Bangladesh (2001), South Korea (2010), Thailand (2000), Turkey (2008), Australia (2003), Japan (2001) United Kingdom (2007) United States (2000).
By Lee Seung-jun
Physical violence between spouses occurred on at least one occasion during the past year for one out of every six married couples under the age of 65, a Ministry of Gender Equality and Family-commissioned study reports. The study also showed a major increase in the rate of spousal violence due to economic issues compared to three years prior.
The ministry on Tuesday announced the findings of its 2010 study on domestic violence nationwide. The study, which was conducted by the Yonsei University Graduate School of Social Welfare at the ministry's behest, examined 3,800 households across the country with spouses under the age of 65.
The findings showed a rate of physical violence between spouses of 16.7 percent over the past year, or roughly one out of every six couples examined. This marked a 5.1 percentage point increase over the 11.6 percent rate found in a 2007 study.
In particular, the rate of physical violence perpetrated by husbands against wives stood at 15.3 percent, more than five times higher than the 2007 rate in Great Britain (3 percent) and the 2001 rate in Japan (also 3 percent).
The study also showed a 53.8 percent rate of total violence between spouses, including physical, emotional and economic violence as well as sexual abuse and neglect. This represented a 13.5 percentage point increase from the 40.3 percent rate found in the study three years before.
Analysts said that economic uncertainty was a factor in the increase in physical abuse between spouses compared to 2007.
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2010年12月29日水曜日
Child Abuse Japan Times
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has developed a database it says can be used to distinguish injuries to children that were caused by accidents from those inflicted through domestic violence.
Because parents who abuse their children often blame their injuries on accidents, the database will seek to verify such claims by gauging the likelihood of an injury being caused by accident, the government lab, known as AIST, said.
The database performs the task by comparing new injuries with about 10,000 other cases in which children were treated by the National Center for Child Health and Development.
The data are classified by gender, age and stage of physical development, and detail the nature of the injury.
The institute used the database to examine 24 child injury cases suspected as abuse and found that the chances of accidental cause ranged up to about 20 percent in 22 of them. But percentages sometimes got as high as 50 percent, so the lab says it is still working to improve the database's precision.
Doctors who suspect abuse are required to report their suspicions to counseling offices for children.
AIST database to help ID child abuse injuries | The Japan Times Online
Because parents who abuse their children often blame their injuries on accidents, the database will seek to verify such claims by gauging the likelihood of an injury being caused by accident, the government lab, known as AIST, said.
The database performs the task by comparing new injuries with about 10,000 other cases in which children were treated by the National Center for Child Health and Development.
The data are classified by gender, age and stage of physical development, and detail the nature of the injury.
The institute used the database to examine 24 child injury cases suspected as abuse and found that the chances of accidental cause ranged up to about 20 percent in 22 of them. But percentages sometimes got as high as 50 percent, so the lab says it is still working to improve the database's precision.
Doctors who suspect abuse are required to report their suspicions to counseling offices for children.
AIST database to help ID child abuse injuries | The Japan Times Online
2010年12月28日火曜日
Japan, 2010
TOKYO (AP) — Japan has been overtaken by China as the world's No. 2 economy. Its flagship company, Toyota, recalled more than 10 million vehicles in an embarrassing safety crisis. Its fourth prime minister resigned in three years, and the government remains unable to jolt an economy entering its third decade of stagnation.
For once-confident Japan, 2010 may well mark a symbolic milestone in its slide from economic giant to what experts see as its likely destiny: a second-tier power with some standout companies but limited global influence.
As Japanese drink up at year-end parties known as "bonen-kai," or "forget-the-year gatherings," this is one many will be happy to forget.
Problem is, there's little to look forward to. With a rapidly aging population, bulging national debt, political gridlock and a risk-averse culture slow to embrace change, Japan's prospects aren't promising. And a tense, high-seas spat with China has intensified fears of its neighbor as a military as well as economic threat.
A few optimists hope Japan can harness its strength in technology and its "Cool Japan" cultural appeal — from fashion and art to "anime" cartoons. The country needs to shed its reliance on manufacturing, they argue, and find new growth areas such as green energy, software engineering and health care for its elderly.
But talk to university students, and their outlook is bleak.
Many worry about finding steady jobs and whether they can support families — concerns that have contributed to Japan's low fertility rate of 1.3 children per woman. Average household income has fallen 9 percent since 1993.
Makoto Miyazaki, a 22-year-old student at prestigious Keio University in Tokyo, senses forces outside his control — and Japan's — are going to dictate his future.
"Internationally, Japan is between big countries like China and the U.S. And Korea is becoming a major competitor — that's a big threat to Japan," he said. "I feel like we have fewer choices."
It's a startling contrast with the 1980s, when Japan was flush with cash and some experts believed its economy was poised to dominate the world.
Millions have given up the goal of lifetime employment at a major corporation and become "freeters," flitting among temporary jobs with few if any benefits. As companies cut costs, temporary workers have grown to a third of the work force, up from 16 percent in the mid-1980s.
Further, the population is projected to fall from 127 million to 90 million by 2055 — 40 percent of them over the age of 65. That's going to place a heavy tax burden on workers.
Economic difficulty is a chief reason more than 30,000 Japanese have committed suicide every year for the past 12 years.
The Associated Press: For Japan, 2010 was a year to forget
For once-confident Japan, 2010 may well mark a symbolic milestone in its slide from economic giant to what experts see as its likely destiny: a second-tier power with some standout companies but limited global influence.
As Japanese drink up at year-end parties known as "bonen-kai," or "forget-the-year gatherings," this is one many will be happy to forget.
Problem is, there's little to look forward to. With a rapidly aging population, bulging national debt, political gridlock and a risk-averse culture slow to embrace change, Japan's prospects aren't promising. And a tense, high-seas spat with China has intensified fears of its neighbor as a military as well as economic threat.
A few optimists hope Japan can harness its strength in technology and its "Cool Japan" cultural appeal — from fashion and art to "anime" cartoons. The country needs to shed its reliance on manufacturing, they argue, and find new growth areas such as green energy, software engineering and health care for its elderly.
But talk to university students, and their outlook is bleak.
Many worry about finding steady jobs and whether they can support families — concerns that have contributed to Japan's low fertility rate of 1.3 children per woman. Average household income has fallen 9 percent since 1993.
Makoto Miyazaki, a 22-year-old student at prestigious Keio University in Tokyo, senses forces outside his control — and Japan's — are going to dictate his future.
"Internationally, Japan is between big countries like China and the U.S. And Korea is becoming a major competitor — that's a big threat to Japan," he said. "I feel like we have fewer choices."
It's a startling contrast with the 1980s, when Japan was flush with cash and some experts believed its economy was poised to dominate the world.
Millions have given up the goal of lifetime employment at a major corporation and become "freeters," flitting among temporary jobs with few if any benefits. As companies cut costs, temporary workers have grown to a third of the work force, up from 16 percent in the mid-1980s.
Further, the population is projected to fall from 127 million to 90 million by 2055 — 40 percent of them over the age of 65. That's going to place a heavy tax burden on workers.
Economic difficulty is a chief reason more than 30,000 Japanese have committed suicide every year for the past 12 years.
The Associated Press: For Japan, 2010 was a year to forget
Japan University Bullying Suicide
Japan university sorry for death of bullied Indian student
A Japanese university on Monday apologised to the family of an Indian student who committed suicide in 2007, after leaving a note saying he would kill himself because of bullying at school. The male student, then aged 20, at Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka prefecture, jumped from a building three
years ago, leaving a note saying: "The bullying I keep getting at school ... Cannot take it any more."
The student, who was born to Indian parents and grew up in Japan, had earned
Japanese citizenship, a university official said.
Compounding the tragedy, his father, depressed about his son's suicide, later jumped to his death from the same building, according to local reports.
"I would like to express my heartfelt apology to the bereaved family members," said university dean Masayuki Ochiai at a press conference.
The university refused to comment on whether the abuse was racially motivated saying the specific nature of the bullying was not known.
Local media said he had been forced to take his trousers down in front of other people and that he had been nicknamed "bin Laden".
An independent third party panel was created in October to probe the incident after the Sankei newspaper and public broadcaster NHK reported the case.
Japan, a country where more than 30,000 people commit suicide every year, often sees school children kill themselves, with many leaving notes referring to harsh bullying by their peers.
Japan university sorry for death of bullied Indian student - Hindustan Times
A Japanese university on Monday apologised to the family of an Indian student who committed suicide in 2007, after leaving a note saying he would kill himself because of bullying at school. The male student, then aged 20, at Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka prefecture, jumped from a building three
years ago, leaving a note saying: "The bullying I keep getting at school ... Cannot take it any more."
The student, who was born to Indian parents and grew up in Japan, had earned
Japanese citizenship, a university official said.
Compounding the tragedy, his father, depressed about his son's suicide, later jumped to his death from the same building, according to local reports.
"I would like to express my heartfelt apology to the bereaved family members," said university dean Masayuki Ochiai at a press conference.
The university refused to comment on whether the abuse was racially motivated saying the specific nature of the bullying was not known.
Local media said he had been forced to take his trousers down in front of other people and that he had been nicknamed "bin Laden".
An independent third party panel was created in October to probe the incident after the Sankei newspaper and public broadcaster NHK reported the case.
Japan, a country where more than 30,000 people commit suicide every year, often sees school children kill themselves, with many leaving notes referring to harsh bullying by their peers.
Japan university sorry for death of bullied Indian student - Hindustan Times
Otemon Gakuin Suicide Japan
Although this is just being reported now, the suicide happened in June of 2007! Although the family of the Indian student who committed suicide asked the Otemon Gakuin University to investigate, the school let this case sit on a shelf for 3 years. The university made no report until the bereaved family hired a lawyer in August of 2010.
This is really sad news. I have not seen this picked up by a lot of news agencies yet, but I really hope this news goes international. I have personally seen cases of exchange students having trouble making friends, having trouble with host families, and even being picked on or disliked by teachers before. This story, however, is even more extreme.
Bullied Indian Student at Otemon Gakuin University Commits Suicide | Japan News and Commentary
This is really sad news. I have not seen this picked up by a lot of news agencies yet, but I really hope this news goes international. I have personally seen cases of exchange students having trouble making friends, having trouble with host families, and even being picked on or disliked by teachers before. This story, however, is even more extreme.
Bullied Indian Student at Otemon Gakuin University Commits Suicide | Japan News and Commentary
Japan University Suicide
Tokyo: A Japanese university on Monday apologised to the family of an Indian student who committed suicide in 2007, after leaving a note saying he would kill himself because of bullying at school.
The male student, then aged 20, at Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka prefecture, jumped from a building three years ago, leaving a note saying: "The bullying I keep getting at school ... Cannot take it any more."
The student, who was born to Indian parents and grew up in Japan, had earned Japanese citizenship, a university official said.
Compounding the tragedy, his father, depressed about his son's suicide, later jumped to his death from the same building, according to local reports.
"I would like to express my heartfelt apology to the bereaved family members," said university dean Masayuki Ochiai at a press conference.
The university refused to comment on whether the abuse was racially motivated saying the specific nature of the bullying was not known.
Local media said he had been forced to take his trousers down in front of other people and that he had been nicknamed 'bin Laden'.
An independent third party panel was created in October to probe the incident after the Sankei newspaper and public broadcaster NHK reported the case.
Japan, a country where more than 30,000 people commit suicide every year, often sees school children kill themselves, with many leaving notes referring to harsh bullying by their peers.
Japan Uni sorry for Indian student's suicide | Deccan Chronicle | 2010-12-27
The male student, then aged 20, at Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka prefecture, jumped from a building three years ago, leaving a note saying: "The bullying I keep getting at school ... Cannot take it any more."
The student, who was born to Indian parents and grew up in Japan, had earned Japanese citizenship, a university official said.
Compounding the tragedy, his father, depressed about his son's suicide, later jumped to his death from the same building, according to local reports.
"I would like to express my heartfelt apology to the bereaved family members," said university dean Masayuki Ochiai at a press conference.
The university refused to comment on whether the abuse was racially motivated saying the specific nature of the bullying was not known.
Local media said he had been forced to take his trousers down in front of other people and that he had been nicknamed 'bin Laden'.
An independent third party panel was created in October to probe the incident after the Sankei newspaper and public broadcaster NHK reported the case.
Japan, a country where more than 30,000 people commit suicide every year, often sees school children kill themselves, with many leaving notes referring to harsh bullying by their peers.
Japan Uni sorry for Indian student's suicide | Deccan Chronicle | 2010-12-27
Child Porn Japan
The spread of child pornography-related crime in recent years has been exacerbated by the ease with which both perpetrators and victims can access the Internet.
The trend has contributed to an uninterrupted increase in the number of victimized children in this country, despite ongoing international campaigns to root out child pornography, including sexually explicit photographs and graphic depictions of child abuse.
The number of child pornography victims has set new records each year in Japan, despite government moves to strengthen measures against child pornography. (Yomiuri)
Net facilitates spread of child porn | Pillow Talk Japan
The trend has contributed to an uninterrupted increase in the number of victimized children in this country, despite ongoing international campaigns to root out child pornography, including sexually explicit photographs and graphic depictions of child abuse.
The number of child pornography victims has set new records each year in Japan, despite government moves to strengthen measures against child pornography. (Yomiuri)
Net facilitates spread of child porn | Pillow Talk Japan
Child Pornography Japan
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The spread of child pornography-related crime in recent years has been exacerbated by the ease with which both perpetrators and victims can access the Internet.
The trend has contributed to an uninterrupted increase in the number of victimized children in this country, despite ongoing international campaigns to root out child pornography, including sexually explicit photographs and graphic depictions of child abuse.
The number of child pornography victims has set new records each year in Japan, despite government moves to strengthen measures against child pornography. Experts are urging schoolteachers, administrators and parents to recognize the severity of the problem.
Shihoko Fujiwara, representative of Polaris Project Japan (www.polarisproject.jp), a nonprofit organization that provides support to children and women who are victims of sexual abuse and trafficking, said the number of child pornography and child prostitution cases detected in Japan has exceeded 5,000 annually, and that the number was rising year by year.
"One of the reasons for the increase is due to the crackdown [by authorities], but another is that a growing number of children have become involved in the business through the widespread use of the Internet," she said.
According to Fujiwara, a 14-year-old second-year female middle school student was forced to sell sexual services by her classmates and the scene was filmed by male customers.
Net facilitates spread of child porn : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
The spread of child pornography-related crime in recent years has been exacerbated by the ease with which both perpetrators and victims can access the Internet.
The trend has contributed to an uninterrupted increase in the number of victimized children in this country, despite ongoing international campaigns to root out child pornography, including sexually explicit photographs and graphic depictions of child abuse.
The number of child pornography victims has set new records each year in Japan, despite government moves to strengthen measures against child pornography. Experts are urging schoolteachers, administrators and parents to recognize the severity of the problem.
Shihoko Fujiwara, representative of Polaris Project Japan (www.polarisproject.jp), a nonprofit organization that provides support to children and women who are victims of sexual abuse and trafficking, said the number of child pornography and child prostitution cases detected in Japan has exceeded 5,000 annually, and that the number was rising year by year.
"One of the reasons for the increase is due to the crackdown [by authorities], but another is that a growing number of children have become involved in the business through the widespread use of the Internet," she said.
According to Fujiwara, a 14-year-old second-year female middle school student was forced to sell sexual services by her classmates and the scene was filmed by male customers.
Net facilitates spread of child porn : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
2010年12月24日金曜日
2010年12月22日水曜日
Japan Child Abuse
And the number is growing. Recent amendments to the Child Abuse Prevention Law that expanded the definition of child abuse and neglect, as well as an increasing public awareness of these issues, have resulted in an influx of children into institutional care. Between 2000 and 2007 the number of children in state homes increased by 6.7 percent and the number of facilities grew 2.2 percent, according to the latest government figures. In some homes, 75 percent of the children Living Dreams personnel encounter have been abused.
Dreams for life, not just for Christmas | The Japan Times Online
Dreams for life, not just for Christmas | The Japan Times Online
2010年12月16日木曜日
Psychiatry Japan
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. It is used in the United States and in varying degrees around the world, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and policy makers. The DSM has attracted controversy and criticism as well as praise. There have been five revisions since it was first published in 1952, gradually including more mental disorders, although some have been removed and are no longer considered to be mental disorders, most notably homosexuality.
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A Warning Sign on the Road to DSM-V: Beware of Its Unintended Consequences - Psychiatric Times
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A Warning Sign on the Road to DSM-V: Beware of Its Unintended Consequences - Psychiatric Times
2010年12月12日日曜日
Japanese Psychology
Well Planted in Fertile Ground: An Introduction to Japanese Psychotherapy by Andrew GrimesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
"Well Planted in Fertile Soil: An Introduction to Japanese Psychotherapy"
http://tokyocounseling.com/english/media...
The Practice of Psychotherapy in Japan: an investigation into all psychotherapies currently being practiced in Japan, the ways and approaches of psychotherapies in Japan, where psychotherapists practice in Japan and how they utilize psychotherapeutic systems to serve the needs and wishes of their clients and patients. With an emphasis on identifying the full range of systems of psychotherapy being used within Japanese society in the treatment of emotional and psychosomatic problems and also in the treatment of problems caused by crisis in life.
Extract: The current of psychotherapy in Japan has long been naturally moving towards all current psychotherapies being used in a form of integrated psychotherapy. The teachings of all the most leading and influential teachers of the predominate schools of psychotherapy at least since the end of the war in the Pacific have favoured an acceptance and respect for all other major systems of psychotherapy. The answers and comments provided by all respondents surveyed as part of this research on the use of all of the major methods of psychotherapy currently utilized to nurture the well being of clients and patients of all kinds overwhelming show that they vary and tailor their approach for each and every one of them. So very few practicing psychotherapists here insist on just one approach. Therefore it is a very personal and consensually concordant current that has resulted in integrative psychotherapy becoming popular in Japan too.
The very nature of Japanese culture with its Buddhist roots still deeply influencing the ways that all people here relate to one another here is integrative in nature and schools of psychotherapy too have been adopted, adapted and encouraged to grow and advance in a spirit of harmony and cooperation between professionals and clients and patients always with a respect of the intrinsic inter-relationship of human interaction being at the heart of things."
© 2010 Andrew Grimes JSCCP, JCP - Author - Not for quotation or citation without the express permission of the author.
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自殺：千葉の中２男子が首つり アンケにいじめ受けている - 毎日ｊｐ(毎日新聞)
自殺：千葉の中２男子が首つり アンケにいじめ受けている
千葉県市川市の市立中学２年の男子生徒（１４）が自宅で１４日に首つり自殺をしていたことが分かった。１日に学校が実施したアンケートでいじめを受けていると回答、担任教諭には「いじめる生徒」の名前を伝え、学校側は対応を検討中だった。遺書は見つかっていないが、市教育委員会はいじめを苦に自殺した可能性もあるとみて調査している。
自殺：千葉の中２男子が首つり アンケにいじめ受けている
千葉県市川市の市立中学２年の男子生徒（１４）が自宅で１４日に首つり自殺をしていたことが分かった。１日に学校が実施したアンケートでいじめを受けていると回答、担任教諭には「いじめる生徒」の名前を伝え、学校側は対応を検討中だった。遺書は見つかっていないが、市教育委員会はいじめを苦に自殺した可能性もあるとみて調査している。
2010年12月2日木曜日
Suicide Japan Japan Times
Suicide Japan The Japan Times
Until that year, Japan had between 22,000 and 24,000 suicides a year. In 1998 the rate increased by around 35 percent, and since 1998 the number of people killing themselves each year in Japan has consistently remained over 30,000. The current worldwide recession is, of course, impacting Japan, so unless the new administration initiates very proactive and well funded local and nationwide suicide prevention programs and other mental health care initiatives, including tackling the widespread problem of clinical depression suffered by so many of the general population, it is very difficult to foresee the previous government's stated target to reduce the suicide rate to around 23,000 by 2016 as being achievable. On the contrary, the suffering that people who become part of these numbers have to endure may well stay at current levels.
Bringing down the suicide rate | The Japan Times Online
Suicide Japan The Japan Times
Until that year, Japan had between 22,000 and 24,000 suicides a year. In 1998 the rate increased by around 35 percent, and since 1998 the number of people killing themselves each year in Japan has consistently remained over 30,000. The current worldwide recession is, of course, impacting Japan, so unless the new administration initiates very proactive and well funded local and nationwide suicide prevention programs and other mental health care initiatives, including tackling the widespread problem of clinical depression suffered by so many of the general population, it is very difficult to foresee the previous government's stated target to reduce the suicide rate to around 23,000 by 2016 as being achievable. On the contrary, the suffering that people who become part of these numbers have to endure may well stay at current levels.
Bringing down the suicide rate | The Japan Times Online
Suicide Japan The Japan Times
Japan's Suicide Epidemic
From CNN Japan's Suicide Epidemic
An average of 30,000 Japanese people take their own lives every year. Today, News Stream examines the role the internet is playing in this challenging national issue.
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An average of 30,000 Japanese people take their own lives every year. Today, News Stream examines the role the internet is playing in this challenging national issue.
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