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Japan to ban sex crime teachers and nursery workers from schools

By on June 28, 2023

Japan’s Children and Families Agency held the first meeting Tuesday of an expert panel to discuss a system barring people with sex crime records from becoming school teachers and nursery workers.

Under the system dubbed as the Japanese version of Britain’s Disclosure and Barring Service,  schools and nursery jobs having to do with children would require applicants to submit a no-record-of-sex-crime certificate.

“Sex crimes are acts that severely violate children’s human rights and are absolutely unacceptable,” minister in charge of policies for children Masanobu Ogura said at the panel meeting. The proposed system “will be important for the safety of children,” Ogura stressed.

The panel comprising 12 members including law experts and child psychologists, as well as local government leaders will hold hearings with nurseries, private education operators and former victims of sex crimes.

The agency plans to submit a related bill at the next extraordinary Diet session this autumn.

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