Action forChildren’sFuture2024

For Junior andHigh School Students

Tokyo Metropolitan Government
will create the society filled withchildren’s smiles.
Children can grow up healthily and in their own way.
We will think about what is the best for children with them.

We will value
the views ofchildren as themain characters.

People in the whole society value children.
We will enhance the feeling of “valuing children” in the entire society.

People can raise children without anxiety.
We will continue to support child-rearing generation.

We listen to children’s viewsat their familiar place.
We collect views of junior highschool and high school students
by making use of SNS.
We ask for the publicly selected
monitors to reply to web surveys
on the initiatives promoted by
the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Let's learn about the Tokyo Metropolitan
Government Basic Ordinance on Children.
Children are members of society. Children have a number of rights just as adults do, and some ofthem are enjoyed by children only. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Basic Ordinance onChildren was created to ensure that children’s rights are respected and all of you can live happily.
Children are irreplaceable
beings and main
characters of rights.

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Children have their own rights, which all people have as
natural rights. Children’s rights should be respected.

Children’s happiness should
be prioritized.

Adults will put the best interests of children first.

Children’s views
should be respected.

Children’s views are valuable and precious.
Adults will deal with children’s views properly.

The staff members of
the Tokyo Metropolitan
Government will visit
junior high schools andhigh schools to provide
lectures on policies forchildren.
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We will connect children’s views
and thoughts with our future
actions
Views on learning
environments

We would like to have morelessons where we caninteract with people fromoverseas.

As I cannot understand Japanese,
I'm reft alone at school.

Action for
the Future

We would like towork overseas
by engaging in work
using English.

Views on consulting troubles

There are some troubles that
I cannot tell to people close tome or the ones that I know.

Action for
the Future

It is difficult for me
to consult withmy parent (s)about money.
I hope that the system
will be the one whereI can choose the placemost suitable for me,
be it a school ora free school.

We will support learning in accordance with students’
individual circumstances.

3Just having someone listen toand understand my anxieties
may be helpful for me.

We will enable children to take counsel freely when
they are in trouble by various methods(SNS/telephone/face-to-face talk).

Views on playgrounds
and third places
While some children go to
paid gymnasium andfamily restaurants, I don’t haveenough money to pay for them.

Action forthe Future

Although I feeluncomfortable in talking
on the phone, I can takecounsel more easily
via LINE.

I hope that children’s
views should
be reflected increating their
third places.

If “Community Kitchen for Children”
disappears, I would haveno third place.

We will increase local playgrounds and third places
where children can feel free to drop by.
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Children can take counsel easily
in various methods through SNSor telephone.

The ideas on social
issues thought by all of
us can be distributed.

Toward the society
where children
are valued.

▲

Kodomo Ambassador
Ms. Kirari Murayama

We will provide
support forchildren’s smiles
across society.

There are persons or places
that children can counton when they are in trouble.

We will support to resolve
children’s anxieties and concerns.

Children can have various
third places other thanin school and at home.

We will realize the city filledwith children’s smiles.
No need to worry about
their body and healthconditions alone.

Children can take onchallenges proactively,
being protected fromaccidents.

We will support
children’s learning.

We will support
child-rearing
generation.
Children can learn withoutworrying about money
and go on to the next stageof education.

Children can engage
in studies that they
are good at.
Children can learn
state-of-the-art
digital technologies.

Children can have more
opportunities to study abroad andto interact with students
in overseas schools.
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No need to worry about their bodyand health conditions alone.
Youth Healthcare

Information
distribution

Special lecturesby an obstetrician.

Webpage“TOKYO YOUTHHEALTHCARE” etc.

Consultation/Receiving
Medical Examination
Tokyo Youth Health Support(WAKASAPO*)
Specialized counselling bya school doctor
as an obstetrician.

7● We distribute the articles of the issues related to health of youths
or the subjects according to anxieties and interestsof youths.and interests of youths.
● Children can search for consultation service
for youths by the Tokyo Metropolitan
Government.
● There are three contents.
・ ”SOS” that is helpful when children
are in trouble.
・ ”Story” from which children can learn
about health care with characters.
・ ”Interview” as a conversation withan influencer.

▲ Akari and Hiroto as main characters,
Mokofuka as a guide■Children can search for the articles from nine categories.
About children’sbodiesSecondary sexual
character,lifestyle habit etc.

About sex

About nutrition
Eating disorder,
overeating, refusal
to eat etc.

Pregnancy, birthcontrol, sexual
disease, diversityof gender etc.

About mind

About alcoholand drugs etc.

About injuriesetc.

Over-the-counter
medicines,
caffein etc.

About loveaffairs

Building equal
relationships,
dating abuse etc.

About violence

Mental health,depression etc.

Gender-basedviolence, abuse etc.

OthersUnexpected accidents,injuries, disabilities etc.

Human relationships,
SNS etc.

URL:https://www.youth-healthcare.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/
TOKYO YOUTH HEALTHCARE

Also accessible fromtwo-dimensional barcode.

▼Learning● A specialist such as a nurse
etc. respond to healthproblems peculiar toadolescence including sex.
● Children can take counsel
anonymously.

We will help solve children’s anxieties and concerns on sex,
their mind and bodies which they can hardly talk or ask about.

■Main features

We will resolve “what should I do?” or “I’m in trouble” ofadolescent children who face various changes in their mind
and bodies and tend to have anxieties and concerns,
and support “current” and “future” health management.

*WAKASAPO

Website for health and medical treatment from their teen years

8Children can take on challenges proactively,
being protected from accidents.

Case study

should we change?
Heat stroke What
Let’s think how to prevent heat stroke.

Pull together! Don't get beaten!

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Don’ t be weak!

Creation of circumstances toprotect children from accidents.

Dizzyslash

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Things we wantto change.

Drowningin river

What we canchange● Wear a life jacket.
● Wear water shoes.
● Don’t go near a river
without an adult.

Things wecan't change.

Flow and depthof the river

Injuries can be stopped by “changing” things.
That’s why it’s important to think about“what you can change”.
9It's getting hotter,
isn't it?

4DizzyOh no

What can we do stop accidents?

▲Prof. KAERU

3Dizz
y

Various kinds of accidents have occurred in school or while on the go.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is engaged in creating environments
which hardly cause accidents of children.

For example, when children play in rivers,“changing” from “not wearing a life jacket” to“wearing one” saves you from drowning.

We've got to try
harder !

Are youalrightYes, I'm
also thirsty.
Let’s makechanges startingfrom here● Wearing breathable clothing.
● Avoiding direct sunlight with a hat.
● Checking the latest heat index.
● Taking frequent water breaks andsalt supplements.

● Not pushing yourself.
Besides, there are the following accidents…”Indoor exercise”
Indoor facilities, such as gymnasiums, are dangerous, too. Even when not in direct sunlight,
heat stroke can occur due to a room’s high temperature and humidity. Before it becomes too
unbearable, find a cool area to rest

Let’s think about preventionof accidents together.

ChildC
hild Injury
Prevention Handbook.
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