Name: Japan's independent kids I The Feed
Uploaded: 2018-05-16T10:44:37.000Z
Duration: 8 min 22 s
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their children to travel to and from school alone

emphasises independence and self-reliance

In which young children are given neighbourhood tasks,

and secretly filmed as they set about them alone,

sometimes even with a younger sibling in tow.

because all Japanese people had that experience

of having their parents entrust them to do

Jake Adelstein was the first Westerner to

giving him an insight into Japanese crime and justice

As I was walking to the station i would see

Like, who is making sure these kids cross the road

and she said, I'm going to walk there myself.

and chased after her, and she ran all the way to school,

It's Monday morning on Sydney's affluent North Shore,

where the Frasier family are starting the day.

My name is Rob Fraser, I'm 47 years of age,

There's myself, there's Jane, and Emily, who is 10.

Please don't leave the apple in your bag all week.

i had a conversation with her the other day about

what would she like to do, would she like  to get the bus to school,

She made it very clear that she would like to do that.

One thing I'm most looking forward to in high school

In fact, studies show kids want to walk to school.

that children are not safe to cross roads on their own

That's why we're so nervous about children

being allowed to walk on their own to school,

though they might be on the footpath the whole way.

You see, Emily's School, Middle Harbour Public,

was the first to trial a 40 km p/h school zone

If you look at the way Australians behave

I mean, a lot of people have one thing on their minds,

Having parents pick up and drop off their kids

and that's one of the reasons you probably don't see it.

It's also one of the other reasons that Japan

and Japanese society is set up to make it safe for kids

because if parents have to be responsible

the entire workforce and the way companies work.

Japan, of course, has an exceptionally low crime rate.

They have more than five times our population

but less than four times the homocides we have.

I've covered very few cases of children being abducted.

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