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In this issue, my editor-in-chief, there was news that in my hometown of Ota Ward, Tokyo, a parent sued the ward, claiming that it was unfair that she failed to get into a preschool. this was on March 29, 2017.
Hiroko Suzuki, 34, who has not decided where her two children will go, said, "I distrust the selection process. I want it to be clarified," she said.
According to the ward, in addition to the six applicants, nine other people had submitted similar requests for review by the same date. The ward received applications from 5,132 applicants for the first round of admission to licensed childcare facilities in April, and 40%, or 2,777 people, were not admitted.
Can you clarify this selection process? There are probably many families in similar circumstances, and we cannot conduct hearings with each family one by one. Even if we increase the number of daycare centers, if it is moved by the government, it will be funded by taxes, so I wonder if Ota Ward residents' taxes can be increased to cover the increased burden of daycare centers...and so on.
In the Showa period, it may have been fine to have a social system based on the assumption of full-time housewives, but today we live in an era of complete co-employment. I would like to see discussions begin on creating a social system based on the premise of co-workers.
