A video is being widely shared on social media claiming that schools in Japan show children videos of their parents’ hard work at the workplace so that they don’t waste their parents’ money and study hard. This video shows children getting emotional in a class while watching the videos of a few labourers. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of Japanese school children getting emotional while watching the videos of their parents’ hard work at their workplace.
Fact: The video shared in the post is an edited one. Unrelated visuals from different videos are edited and shared as the visuals of students reacting emotionally while watching their parents’ labour at their workplace. No Japanese news site had reported such a programme being implemented in Japanese schools. Also, the same video was shared by many users as a video from China. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
When we searched to check whether any Japanese school is implementing such a programme for students in classrooms, we could not find any news report confirming this. Japan’s Ministry of Education also did not announce any such programme being implemented in their schools. On reverse image search of the screenshots in the video, a video showing similar visuals was found uploaded by a Tik Tok user in August 2022. But the Tik Tok user did not mention it as the visuals of Japanese schools showing videos of parents’ labour to students.
Multiple social media users have shared the same video with different false claims on Facebook, Twitter, and Share Chat. On watching the video carefully, one could observe that the visuals seen on the class board are created using editing software. There are many such videos available on the internet.
On searching for further sources, we found that a video clip part of this viral video shows old visuals of a few school children crying over the death of their teacher in China. A few similar edited videos published on the internet can be seen here and here.
To sum it up, an edited video is shared as the visuals of Japanese schools showing students the videos of their parents’ labour for their education.
