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Some nurseries promoted by gov't closing due to financial woes

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mismanagement of government grants

Says it all. Has it ever been any different?

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Without fraud it's not a viable business? I say more tax payers dollars, personally I'm optimistic about my new vetenary university. Kids... Who needs them. Now a Chiwawa that's gold.

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a desire to encourage more women to work.

That's fair enough but parents only need nurseries until they start school. Only 8% of Japanese women with children of all ages work as seishain. I think the government should care much more about how many women with 10-year-olds have an active career rather than how many women with a 10-month-old baby. The problem in Japan is not how few or many women with babies work, it's how few women with school-aged kids do work that is not casual and low paid.

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These "closures" seem to be straight up scams period! The govt offers crazy subsidies & then scamers get out their calculators to see if they can game the system & come out ahead! Simple as that!

Near my place we have a "day-care" place where old folks spend the day, ONLY the day no overnighters & closed Sundays!

The place seems like a scam to me, quite big very nice facility, must be close to 20people "working" there, but you only see a handful of old folks come & go on any given day, the costs per old person has got to ISANE for this place to make a legitimate buck, I would say upwards to Y100,000 per old person per day & then I still imagine they MUST be losing $$$$

Anyone see similar "day care" with similar comings & goings of old folks into place loaded with staff etc, I see more & more signs & they clearly cant be surviving on their own by any stretch of the imagination, point this out to the mrs & she thinks they are great & Just cant see the scam right nearby our house...……..wth!

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Take the money, bow and lie low for 3 years.

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Nurseries also closed due to subsidy-related fraud

And yet another case of corporate fraud in Japan. Japan might not be a violent country but it’s definitely not a law-abiding country either. It just seems to be an endless list of companies with no scruples what-so-ever!

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Japan might not be a violent country but it’s definitely not a law-abiding country either. It just seems to be an endless list of companies with no scruples what-so-ever!

In other words, Japan is a perfectly normal capitalist economy. I track business news from a number of countries including Germany, Italy, Australia, the UK, and the US. I get a steady stream of stories about wrong-doing by corporations in those countries. If you only read publications focused on Japan such as Japan Today, it is only natural that you will primarily see stories about Japan.

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Cricky - Chihuahua? Seriously? I have a whippet who's more intelligent than kindergarteners but still needs a bit of looking after. I guess the facilities which shut down were more interested in the subsidies than their responsibilities.

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That's fair enough but parents only need nurseries until they start school. Only 8% of Japanese women with children of all ages work as seishain. I think the government should care much more about how many women with 10-year-olds have an active career rather than how many women with a 10-month-old baby. The problem in Japan is not how few or many women with babies work, it's how few women with school-aged kids do work that is not casual and low paid.

kohakuebisu - I think that you make a good point - there are very few mothers in the workforce generally, but I think that the problems start when children are very small/babies. Once women have children, they effectively leave the workforce.

In that sense, I would not distinguish between mothers with pre-school age children or mothers with older children. The problem starts when they become mothers and leave the workplace. This is partly because of societal expectations and the lack of childcare facilities - in itself a result of the lack of working mothers.

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 These "closures" seem to be straight up scams period! The govt offers crazy subsidies & then scamers get out their calculators to see if they can game the system & come out ahead! Simple as that!

Near my place we have a "day-care" place where old folks spend the day, ONLY the day no overnighters & closed Sundays!

The place seems like a scam to me, quite big very nice facility, must be close to 20people "working" there, but you only see a handful of old folks come & go on any given day, the costs per old person has got to ISANE for this place to make a legitimate buck, I would say upwards to Y100,000 per old person per day & then I still imagine they MUST be losing $$

Anyone see similar "day care" with similar comings & goings of old folks into place loaded with staff etc, I see more & more signs & they clearly cant be surviving on their own by any stretch of the imagination, point this out to the mrs & she thinks they are great & Just cant see the scam right nearby our house...……..wth!

You are talking apples and oranges here and misunderstand the article. Daycare here in Japan refers to senior-citizens, and I think you didnt read past that before commenting. This article is about nurseries, children, actually pre-school aged children. Please reread the article, in full this time!

BTW, it costs nothing close to 100,000 yen per day, and the apples and oranges, "day care" is covered partially by medical insurance, along with other things, I also think you dont understand the system and are assuming a lot,

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This problem is not confined to Japan--in Australia untold millions of dollars have been swindled by unscrupulous childrens day care operators some of whom have been jailed for their efforts. Little,if any,of the money so misappropriated has been recovered.

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Many of the kindergartens are not fit for purpose, have few staff and a lot of they staff they do have are not qualified to look after children. They are poorly regulated and expensive.

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