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This study clari es how school refusal was discussed in the 1980s and 1990s, using
Eizaburo Yamashita’s school social work as a lens. Since the 1960s, prolonged school absence
in Japan has drawn attention from a pathological viewpoint, such as “school phobia.”
The link between truancy and medical care continues to be noted today. Focusing on
the practice and philosophy of Yamashita, a school social worker active since the 1980s,
this study examines the historical signi cance of his approach to parents and children, his
critique of rapid economic growth, and his opposition to psychiatric framing. Yamashita’s
work was instrumental in shi ing the perception of school refusal from “pathology and
deviance” to a “human rights issue.” Framing school refusal as a rights issue marked a
turning point in public perception. Yamashita’s intervention in uenced later movements
and shaped policy responses to nonattendance.
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