The rise in child deaths contrasts with a broader decline in suicides, prompting scrutiny of school pressure and mental health support.

Japan witnessed a record high number of child suicides in 2025 for the second consecutive year, local media reported on Thursday. Preliminary government data showed that the number of children in ...

Government data revealed Friday that the number of child abuse reports at Japan's child welfare centers surpassed 220,000 for the sec ...

Youth suicide in Japan is driven by multiple, overlapping factors that continue to place severe psychological strain on children and adolescents.

The number of cases of child abuse handled by child consultation centers across Japan in fiscal 2024 came to 223,691, falling ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament has passed a law which bans possession of child pornography, but excludes sexually explicit depictions of children in comics, animation and computer graphics. The upper ...