THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 18, 2021 at 18:28 JST
Dinner at a group home for children in Mie Prefecture in January includes Korean dishes and mango jelly. Children as young as 2 up to high school age are registered. Some have mixed ancestry from South America and Southeast Asia. (Mari Fujisaki)
Nearly 4 percent of children living in group homes for youngsters across Japan have at least one parent with foreign roots, forcing staff members to confront issues they were not initially trained to handle, an Asahi Shimbun study shows. [Read More]
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