NEWS

Child Consultation Center / Aid in Furniture Tipping Prevention Devices

Minato Voice
2021/01/25

The Child Consultation Center will be established inside the Minato City Children and Families Support Center, which Minato City will open in April 2021. 

The center will be located in Minami Aoyama 5 cho-me.


The Child Consultation Center will respond to a variety of consultations, providing specialist support from child welfare officers, child psychologists, doctors, public health nurses and lawyers.


Children who are unable to live at home for various reasons such as abuse or illness of the person raising them, are brought up by foster parents or in children’s homes etc. The Child Consultation Center provides support such as helping the child to live at home again and supporting them until they become independent, always with the best interests of the child in mind. 


Minato City will provide continuous assistance from pregnancy to infancy, early childhood, and the school age years, until the child becomes independent.


The subsection in charge at Minato City Hall is the Child Consultation Center Planning Subsection of the Child and Family Section.

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If a disaster such as an earthquake occurs, this station, InterFM897, will provide the necessary information from Minato City, including evacuation procedures and damage updates. 

Please tune in to InterFM897 if a major earthquake strikes. 


Minato City provides furniture tipping prevention devices etc free of charge, with the aim of keeping damage from falling furniture to a minimum in the event of an earthquake. 

Those eligible are households whose members reside in Minato City and are registered as residents. 

Aid is available only once per household and is provided in the form of items such as tension rod style devices, which support ceilings and furniture to prevent furniture from tipping over, and shatter prevention film for glass. 


Installation of the furniture tipping prevention devices etc will also be provided for senior citizens, people with disabilities, expectant and nursing mothers and single parent families.

To apply, please fill out and submit the application form for ‘aid in furniture tipping prevention devices etc’. 

This is available at the Collaboration Project Section at any Regional City Office. 


The subsection in charge at Minato City Hall is the Disaster Prevention Community Support Subsection of the Disaster Prevention Section.

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(Audio) 25th/28th January 2021 ON AIR: Child Consultation Center / Aid in Furniture Tipping Prevention Devices