A mother and her child mourn for Yua Funato in front of an apartment where she died in Tokyo, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo June 26, 2018. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is taking emergency steps to boost the number of child welfare workers by 60 percent within five years, spurred by the death of a child whose handwritten notes seeking forgiveness from her abusive parents have shaken the nation.
The death in March of the five-year-old girl, Yua Funato, was "soul-crushing", Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said, in a case that exposes the shortcomings in Japan's child welfare services long targeted by critics.
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