From Facility to Home. Foster care in Japan long centered on government-run institutions. With revision of the Child Welfare Act in 2016, ...

A survey by a social welfare group says the foster care system for children in Japan is facing growing challenges. In Japan, most children who can't live with their parents due to abuse or ...

Meanwhile, there were 41,507 children who needed social care, due to parental illness, poverty, or abuse, and only 19.2% of them were being raised in a home environment, such as by foster parents ...