The kids aren't alright: Japan struggles to protect its most vulnerable children

TOKYO - Miwa Moriya was 6 when social workers told her she was going to a Christmas party, but instead moved her into a group home for about 60 children in a small city in western Japan.

The "party" turned into more than eight years of living away from her mother, and the beginning of a long battle with loneliness, bullying, and trauma.

She never knew exactly why she was sent to the home - only that the state thought she would be better off there than with her family.

from Asia
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