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Kidzania Tokyo is an enormously popular theme park where children are supposed to get work experience, but one little girl's visit there turned out to be a traumatic experience after the supervisor in its airline area unleashed a sex attack on her while they were alone in the cockpit, according to Shukan Bunshun (4/10).
"The male supervisor in the airline pavilion played around with the private parts of a 6-year-old girl, injuring her," a Kidzania Tokyo employee tells Shukan Bunshun on condition of anonymity. "All employees have been banned from talking about the incident."
Kidzania Tokyo opened in Koto-ku in October 2006. It's run by Kid City Japan, whose president Einosuke Sumitani brought the concept to this country after seeing it run successfully in its home country of Mexico. Kidzania is an "edutainment" facility supposed to teach kids mainly from ages 2 to 12 about society by giving them a chance to experience all different types of jobs.
"Each of the pavilions has a corporate sponsor, which relieves the burden on investors. It also allows kids to get a more realistic experience. The sponsors can use the pavilions to promote their brands. It's a concept that makes everyone happy," said an economic journalist of the award-winning theme park that has versions slated to open in the near future in the Kansai region and Nagoya.
Not everyone who has visited the park has turned out to be happy, though.
"The day after the end of February molestation, a stern-looking detective turned up to examine the scene. Everybody was wondering what had happened at the time. Soon after, a supervisor got transferred and another stopped coming in to work," the Kidzania employee says. "Soon, there were security cameras set up everywhere."
Kidzania has sold itself on providing high levels of safety for the children who visit it and cited this as a reason for preventing parents from going into the facility. Care of the children is entrusted to supervisors like the one who molested the little girl.
"For safety reasons, it's possible to see nearly all of the pavilions from the outside so those interested in what the kids are doing can look in on them," a Kidzania insider says. "But in this case, the supervisor had lured the little girl into a fairly well hidden part of an airplane."
Kid City Japan initially kept quiet about the molestation case. In the meantime, an estimated 100,000 children passed through its doors. When the weekly contacted the Kidzania Tokyo operators, they denied any such incident had occurred. Only after Shukan Bunshun contacted the sponsor of the pavilion and received its apology over the case did Kid City Japan openly acknowledge it had happened, saying its earlier stance had come out of consideration for the victim and a desire to avoid publicizing the case for her sake. Kid City Japan said it was shocked that one of its employees could have molested a little girl visiting the facility, a spokesman saying the perpetrator "was typical of the type of person we hire and it was unbelievable that he could have done something like this."
Suggestions are being made that Kid City Japan's hiring practices may not have been as protective of children as they were first presumed to have been. An ad agency employee involved in the establishment of Kidzania Tokyo elaborates."Because it's a facility for children, they were determined not to hire any perverts, and only accepted workers with extremely good credentials, such as experience working at Disneyland or qualifications as a nursery school teacher," the ad man tells Shukan Bunshun. "But the result shows that the screening operators were so confident of being effective didn't actually work well at all." (By Ryann Connell)