We have been treated like disease-causing germs.

A Tokyo woman in her 40s who was perplexed when told she cannot tour a kindergarten she asked to visit. Her family has lived in Guangzhou in southern China since a year and half ago due to her husband’s business. She and her two children--a prekindergarten boy and girl toddler--returned to Japan on Jan 5. It has come to light that some nursery schools and kindergartens are shunning Japanese children who have recently returned from China.

© Asahi Shimbun