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CHILDREN

Masaaki Kimura (center) is taken into the Metropolitan Police Department's Shinjuku Police Station in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 4, 2026
Tokyo nursery school teacher arrested for alleged sexual abuse
The suspect has denied the allegations, while dozens of boys at the facility and affiliated after-school care center have reported incidents of indecent behavior.
Children ride sleds as they skate on the frozen Kunming Lake ice rink at Summer Palace in Beijing on Jan. 20.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Feb 4, 2026
Chinese families ache for sons stolen in one-child era
When China had its one-child policy, the trafficking of young boys was fueled by parents seeking a son to carry on the family line, experts say.
Students originally from overseas attend entrance exam preparation classes for high school advancement at YSC Global School in the city of Fussa, Tokyo, on Jan. 22.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 3, 2026
Calls grow to improve Japanese language education
According to the education ministry, the number of students requiring Japanese language education reached a record high of 69,123 in fiscal 2023.
Known as <i>kikokushijo</i>, Japanese children or teens who go abroad with their families and later return to Japan often struggle with stereotypes and suspicions throughout the course of their lives.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Feb 2, 2026
‘Returnees’ reckon with a Japan that sets them apart
“Kikokushijo” — Japanese youth who live abroad as children or teens and then return to Japan — and the struggles they face reflect a country unsure of what it means to be global.
India is considering a ban on social media for children, following Australia's passage of the world's first ban last month.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 1, 2026
Modi ally proposes social media ban for India’s teens as global debate grows
India, the world’s second-biggest smartphone market with 750 million devices and a billion internet users, is a key growth market for social media apps.
An ICE agent holds onto the backpack of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, a student at Valley View Elementary, as he is detained on Jan. 20 in Minneapolis.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 1, 2026
Judge orders release of 5-year-old and father detained in Minnesota ICE raid
The Ecuadorean boy and his father, who entered the United States legally ‍as ‍asylum applicants, were sent to a family detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
"The situation remains unchanged, with child abuse cases still high," an official of the Children and Family Agency said, despite a slight decline from the previous year's record high.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 30, 2026
Japan recorded 0.8% fewer cases of child abuse in fiscal ‘24 than a year earlier
By perpetrator, biological mothers accounted for the largest share, followed by biological fathers.
Tokyo police have arrested a 61-year-old part-time worker from Kawachinagano, Osaka Prefecture, on suspicion of registering a fake address to rent an internet server. Investigators have also linked him to a blog that alludes to child prostitution in Laos.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 30, 2026
Police arrest man over suspected involvement in Laos child prostitution blog
According to Tokyo police, the blog in question contained text and photos suggestive of child prostitution in the Southeast Asian country.
Government data shows that 1,074 students died last year, including 532 elementary, junior high and high school students — the highest number since 1980.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2026
Japan’s suicide death toll drops to record low
The overall number fell by 1,223 from the previous year’s confirmed total, marking a third consecutive annual decline.
TikTok is moving to settle a lawsuit with a woman who claimed that the social media giant and others designed their platforms to addict young users.
BUSINESS
Jan 28, 2026
TikTok joins Snap settling youth addiction suit before trial
TikTok is moving to settle a lawsuit with a woman who alleged that the company and other social media giants designed their platforms to addict young users.
China’s marriage market is being hollowed out by a shrinking pool of women of childbearing age and a severe gender imbalance, while those women who do marry are doing so later and having fewer children.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 28, 2026
Can China reverse its demographic decline?
China’s births have fallen to historic lows and deep structural forces make any lasting fertility rebound unlikely.
Technology leaders at U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January included, from right, Sundar Pichai of Google, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, inside the Capitol Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2025.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 26, 2026
Addictive by design? Social media giants face jury in child harm lawsuit
The companies are accused of addicting young users to content that has led to depression, eating disorders, psychiatric hospitalization and even suicide.
Lykke Lynge and her children in Nuuk, Greenland, on Jan. 19
WORLD / Politics
Jan 26, 2026
Faced with Trump, Greenlanders try to reassure their children
As early as a week after Trump’s inauguration, the Greenlandic authorities published a guide entitled “How to talk to children in times of uncertainty?”
A large crowd marches down a street during during the "ICE out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom" protest in Minneapolis on Friday.
WORLD
Jan 24, 2026
Defiant protests over U.S. immigration crackdown and child’s detention
Images of a terrified pre-schooler being held by immigration officers who were seeking to arrest the boy’s father have rekindled public outrage.
A blackboard illustrating cannabis strains for sale is displayed inside Shaggy Buds, a cannabis dispensary in Bangkok.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 23, 2026
Weed backlash grows in Thailand as kids turn to cannabis
The plant could be criminalized once again after next month’s election, four years after its decriminalization.
People enter an emergency service tent set up for those whose homes are without electricity or heating following Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, in a residential neighborhood of Kyiv on Thursday.
WORLD
Jan 23, 2026
Freezing Kyiv residents seek warmth in trains and tents
Russia has targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure throughout the nearly four-year war, but Kyiv says this winter has been the toughest yet.
Parents and children on a ride in Fuyang, in east China's Anhui province, on Friday. China's birth rate fell last year to its lowest level on record, official data showed Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 19, 2026
China’s birth rate falls to lowest on record
There was a rate of 5.63 births per thousand people last year, Chinese officials said, or the lowest rate since National Bureau of Statistics records began in 1949.
Women push strollers as they walk along a street in Beijing on Jan. 4. China has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world at around 1 birth ‌per woman, well below the 2.1 rate needed for a population to remain stable.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 16, 2026
China revs up fiscal support to boost number of births
The government said women in ⁠2026 would have “no out-of-pocket expenses” during their pregnancy, with medical costs fully reimbursable under its national medical insurance fund.
Jade, 16, holds a picture showing her father, Jose Urquia, in her home in El Rosario, El Salvador, on Dec. 3.
WORLD / Society
Jan 15, 2026
‘Silent crisis’: The generation of Salvadorans deprived of a father
Around 91,000 people, mostly young men, have been thrown into prison since 2022 on suspicions that they are gang members, some simply because they had tattoos.
Punsiripanya Phakhaphon, a former massage parlor worker in Tokyo who is suspected of brokering a Thai girl to offer sexual services at the story, in Tokyo on Wednesday
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 15, 2026
Alleged broker arrested in case involving Thai girl forced to work at Tokyo massage parlor
A 38-year-old Thai woman residing in Japan is suspected of acting as a broker in a high-profile case involving a 12-year-old girl.
Uruguay federation reportedly cancels charter flight after World Cup exit
Uruguay&#039;s Jose Maria Gimenez reacts after the team&#039;s loss against Spain at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Friday.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
India’s gig workers pay the price for exposure to New Delhi’s hazardous air
Rohit Kushwaha waits for a customer as he delivers his last parcel of the day, in New Delhi in January. His work as a delivery driver has helped pay the family’s bills, but has had a significant impact on his health.
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.
‘The colors speak for themselves’: How Japan’s chroma bible went global
“A Dictionary of Color Combinations” is meant to function as a quick-reference guide for artists, designers and anyone with a passing interest in aesthetics as a quantifiable pursuit.

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