In recent years, due to the increasing presence of foreign residents in Japan, issues surrounding children with connections to foreign countries have become a crucial challenge to be addressed within local communities. This paper focuses on the city of Yamato in Kanagawa Prefecture, which has a high concentration of foreign residents. It examines the actual support provided for foreign children by governmental agencies and multiple NPOs. The aim is to reassess the support for foreign children by revealing the outcomes of various activities and identifying remaining challenges. By examining and analyzing publicly available documents, this study reveals the aspects and characteristics of support for foreign children by governmental agencies and NPOs. It also explores the advantages of collaboration between the two. However, the study also highlights the current insufficient support for foreign mothers with infants, particularly those in the nursing stage. These findings indicate that previous support for foreign children, predominantly provided by governmental agencies and NPOs, has primarily focused on educational assistance for school-age children. Furthermore, the study suggests that the existing framework of support for foreign children, which has been built on the accumulation of such systems, lacks adequate assistance for foreign mothers with infants, especially those in need of support before reaching school age. This underscores the deficiency in addressing the needs of foreign mothers and implies a lack of support for mothers with infants within the current structures of support for foreign children.

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The purpose of this paper is to consider how social critiques with reference to psychoanalysis should be from the perspective of the power of discourse toward the realization of a society where various people live together with co-happiness and compassion and harmonize with each other without following blindly. This paper focuses on the discourses of philosophers having attracted attention for their social critiques which reference Lacanian psychoanalysis regarding COVID-19. Their discourses will be analyzed by using examples of mask-wearing and peer pressure, global capitalism, lifestyles during a pandemic, and so on. They are not necessarily aware of the effects and influences of their statements. As long as every social critique is based on a specific perspective, there may be things which are difficult to include in the field of view. When conducting social critiques, it is necessary to be aware of and responsible for the outside the description.

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In 2020, a symbolic space for ethnic coexistence (“Upopoy”) opened in Shiraoi-town, Hokkaido. Upopoy was positioned not only as a space and facility for promoting Ainu culture, but also as a base for the revival and creation of Ainu culture, and as a symbol for respecting the dignity of indigenous peoples and building a vibrant society with a diverse and rich culture without discrimination for the future. Although there are many indigenous peoples in the world, it is difficult to say that their dignity has been emphasized. In Japan, the state of assimilation policy symbolized by the 1899 “ Hokkaido Old Native Protection Law” for the Ainu people continued for more than 100 years. The United Nations recognized respect for the rights of indigenous peoples with its 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the Japanese government agreed. As a result, in 2008, both houses of the Diet passed a resolution calling for the Ainu people to be recognized as indigenous peoples, which served as a springboard for the establishment of Upopoy. However, since the opening of Upopoy, there have been criticisms that the museum lacks the perspective of the Ainu people themselves, especially with regard to its “negative history” exhibit on the Ainu people. This paper will review the meaning of indigenous peoples from previous studies, look back on the historical process with particular attention to the United Nations movement, and examine how the Japanese government's response to the Ainu people has changed. The purpose and function of Upopoy will also be re-examined based on the historical process leading up to its establishment. Furthermore, we would like to examine the nature of the so-called museumschool collaboration between “museums” and “schools” in Upopoy.

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Underage drinking is extremely dangerous because of the many effects it has on the developing body. Despite this, as many as 10% of respondents have been advised to drink or have consumed alcohol. This study examined the retention of pupils' learning during moral lessons and teaching methods that are easy to handle on the part of the class, so that pupils do not stop with an understanding of what they have learned. The research aimed to “develop a healthy and safe attitude to life in order to have a richer attitude to life in the future”, which can be pushed further and applied to everyday life.

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