Tokyo, March four (Jiji Press)–Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that the administration will include a ban on corporal punishments by using parents to their children in deliberate regulation revisions aimed at strengthening the prevention of child abuse. The authorities plan to undertake in mid-March at the earliest payments to revise the child welfare law and the child abuse prevention regulation for submission to the present-day parliamentary session ending in June.
“We’re rushing up preparations to include within the payments effective measures (to prevent infant abuse) together with forbidding physical punishments with the aid of law, promoting the deployment of attorneys at baby session centers, and strengthening coordination with steps to deal with domestic violence,” Abe advised a meeting of the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors, the top chamber of Japan’s parliament.
Upper House debates on the authorities’ fiscal 2019 finances bill began at the committee assembly, which Abe and all cupboard ministers attended. After the House of Representatives, the lower chamber approved the draft price range in the early hours of Saturday. At the committee assembly, Mitsuru Sakurai of the competition Democratic Party for the People asked about the deployment of extra law enforcement officials at infant consultation facilities.
