【What is “Hokatsu”?】
Parents raising children in Japan suffer from “Hokatsu”.
“Hokatsu” is an activity to put a child in a nursery school. Mainly parents collect information, prepare documents, and join the nursery school tour.
According to a survey about the start time of “Hokatsu”, “immediately after childbirth to less than 6 months after birth” is the most common answer in 29.8%.
In addition, 23.4% parents started “Hokatsu” during “pregnancy”, which is more than 20%, and we found that the number of parents who start “Hokatsu” during pregnancy is increasing.
Children who want to enter a nursery school but cannot enter it due to a shortage of nursery schools are called “Taiki Jido” which means waiting-list children.
The burden of kindergarten hunting “Hokatsu” and the problems of waiting-list children “Taiki Jido” are still unsolved.
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【Hokatsu towa?】
Nihon de kosodate o suru oya-tachi wa “Hokatsu” ni nayamasa remasu.”Hokatsu” to wa, kodomo o hoikuen ni ireru tame no katsudō no koto de, omoni jōhō shūshū ya shorui no junbi, hoikuen no kengaku nado o okonaimasu. Aru chōsa ni yoru to, ho katsu o okonatta hito no kaishi jiki wa “shussan-go sugu ~ seigo 6-kagetsu-miman no kikan” ga 29. 8-Pāsento to mottomoōi kaitō to narimashita. Mata,”ninshin-chū” ni ho katsu o kaishi shita hito wa 23. 4-Pāsento to 2-wari o koe,ninshin-chū ni ho katsu o okonau oya ga zōka keikō ni aru to iu koto ga wakarimashita. Hoikuen fusoku nado no riyū de, hoikuen ni nyūen shitainoni dekinai kodomo o “taiki jidō” to yobimasu. Ho katsu no futan ya taiki jidō no mondai wa, genzai mo kaishō sa rezu ni imasu.
