{"id":66593,"date":"2024-09-06T08:52:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T23:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/06\/japanese-schools-topless-health-checks-checkups-japan-school-student-medical-exams"},"modified":"2024-09-06T08:52:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T23:52:40","slug":"i-couldnt-say-no-anger-grows-over-topless-medical-exams-in-japan-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66593","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I couldn\u2019t say no\u2019: anger grows over topless medical exams in Japan schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and campaigners have called on education and health authorities to end the practice of requiring children to strip off for school health checks<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy chest was completely exposed and I felt embarrassed,\u201d writes a Japanese girl after undergoing an annual health checkup at her middle school. Another says: \u201cBefore the exam our teacher told us we would have to lift up our tops and bra \u2026 I didn\u2019t want to do it but I couldn\u2019t say no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The testimony from two 13-year-olds, seen by the Guardian, is typical of the discomfort \u2013 and in some cases trauma \u2013 felt by children attending schools in Japan that can require boys and girls as young as five \u2013 and as old as 18 \u2013 to strip to the waist during health examinations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/06\/japanese-schools-topless-health-checks-checkups-japan-school-student-medical-exams\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents and campaigners have called on education and health authorities to end the practice of requiring children to strip off for school health checks\u201cMy chest was completely exposed and I felt embarrassed,\u201d writes a Japanese girl after undergoing an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66594,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66593\/revisions\/66594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}