Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan

[lostinthought]

https://asianews.network/forced-participation-in-religious-activities-to-be-classified-as-child-abuse/ 

The guidelines will also urge authorities to pay attention to the possibility that children may be unable to recognize the damage caused by abuse after being influenced by doctrine-based thinking and values.

@Dages, since you're in Japan, do you think this would negatively affect our organization?

[Dages]

It's from 2022. It's old news.
It did not really affected us afaik

Edited 17 hours ago by Dages

[Dré]

Jehovah’s Witnesses followers sue Japanese government

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/13/japan/crime-legal/jehovahs-witnesses-sue-japan-government/

 

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TOKYO – Around 20 followers of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group have filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government, seeking to invalidate its guidelines on the abuse of children born to parents devoted to a particular religion.

 

Jehovah’s Witnesses followers sue Japanese government (In Japanese)

https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2026041100332&g=soc

 

Jehovah's Witnesses File Lawsuit Seeking to Invalidate “Guidelines”; Second-Generation Religious Group Criticizes Move in Statement—April 14, 2026 (In Japanese)

https://www.kirishin.com/2026/04/14/90427/

[Dages]

The only recent thing about JWs and the government is some exJWs complaining because they were spanked in the 1970s 1980s... 

In daily life, really, no impact at all

[Kwabena]

 

10 hours ago, Dages said:

The only recent thing about JWs and the government is some exJWs complaining because they were spanked in the 1970s 1980s... 

In daily life, really, no impact at all

But spanking your kids was legal in the 70's and 80's in Japan, no?

 

That's like me going at 80mph at a street on a Monday, the state installing a 50mph speed limit at that point on Wednesday. And a Karen complaining to the police on Friday that I "broke the law" on Monday.

 

Tsw 🤦🏿