Greeting from the chief director
ProfileDean of the Department of Law at Surugadai University
Director of the Japanese Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
The main writings‘Intervention to Child Abuse –Its System and Law—‘ (the author and editor, published byShogakusha)‘Child Abuse Prevention Legal System-- Directionality and the Problem ofRefom—‘ (the authorand editor, published by Shogakusha)‘Law of Family and Succession’ (the author and editor, published by Shogakusha)
Greeting
The child abuse prevention of the whole country network was born in 2001 as "A nationwidenetwork where the refom of the child abuse prevention law was requested". In 2000, the childabuse prevention law was enforced and a real approach on the child cruelty started but still, thesystem and the contents of the law were not enough. Then by calling all fields related to a child'swelfare, to prevent the childabuse, and to improve the child's welfare, we started to operate as agroup that do a social action from which the legal system reform was requested.
There have been two investigations and proposals for law reform, eleven symposiums, a repose ofsoul meeting and a parade that gathered 4000 people in Hibiya and in addition to investigate fromwhich transfers of tax revenue sources review to the local public entity of the protection necessary
child measures budget was requested and the activities of the meetings.
"the child

We started to work on

abuse prevention orange ribbon movement" in full scale last year. On that occasion,to develop, not only, a law reform but also the activity that prevented the child abuse more widely,
we changed our name to "The Child Abuse Prevention of the Whole Country Network".
It was necessary to accomplish the responsibility as a group appropriately to develop a wide range
like this activity, and to appeal to the society.

Therefore, we applied for the attestation of NPO(specific, non-profit-making activity) corporation and were admitted in August, 2007. I would liketo thank all the people who have supported our activities.
Well, our "Child Abuse Prevention of the Whole Country Network" assumed that two businesses
are accomplished now.

One was a social action from which the review of a reform of the childabuse prevention law and children's welfare act and the lowest standards in facilities for children'swelfare etc. were requested in cooperation with various groups that were related to the preventionof the child abuse. We would like to verify the enforcement situation of the child abuse prevention
law and the children's welfare act newly reformed, and to develop various activities like a
symposium and a meeting, etc. aiming at the following revision: another one was announcing to
the public of the child abuse prevention at centers of the orange ribbon movement and anenlightening activity. It was not possible to say enough even though the understanding of thesociety was deeper about the child abuse. It was necessary to accomplish the whole society's
sharing knowledge of the child cruelty to support it to children, who had parents, who worried about
how to bring up the child, were unhappy, and had received some cruelty, and had made it
respectively.

We would like to expand the orange ribbon activities that aims at “A society where all children arenot maltreated” to a symbol further through the distribution of a cloth ribbon and a badge, and therepose of a soul meeting and a parade.

We hope as many people as possible will understand the purpose of our activity and get cooperationin the prevention of the child abuse. in each method. It is our dream to work with all of you toachieve “A society where all children are not maltreated” hand in hand.

September, 2007
Chairman of the Board of Directors of NPO The Child Abuse Prevention of the Whole Country
NetworkTsuneo Yoshida