The childcare center attached to Musashino Junior College in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, included the exercise in its annual road safety course to teach children how to seek help on their own in an emergency. Together with their guardians, 42 children participated in the exercise on September 12. Officers from the Sayama Police Station first taught the children with a model steering wheel. They were told to keep blowing the horn with “their butt or a water bottle” until an adult arrived. More from NextShark: ‘We sympathize with the pain of the Ukrainian people’: Chinese history teachers write open letter against the war Children were also given the opportunity to honk the horn of the school bus while sitting at the wheel. Participants are expected to complete the safety course by September 16. “My child is usually told not to touch the steering wheel, but I felt relieved that we could have this kind of experience,” one mother told the Mainichi Shimbun. China Kawamoto, 3, died of heatstroke on Sept. 5 after being left behind on a locked school bus for about five hours at Kawasaki Yochien, a certified childcare facility. In July 2021, a 5-year-old boy also died after being left alone on a kindergarten school bus in Fukuoka Prefecture. More from NextShark: Game designer Hideo Kojima responds to being mistakenly identified as Shinzo Abe’s assassin The Japanese government is in the process of conducting emergency inspections of kindergartens that use school buses. They plan to draw up emergency countermeasures in October. Featured image via thanun note More from NextShark: Harvard president defends university after Supreme Court accepts admissions case: ‘Race matters’ Do you like this content? Read more from NextShark! Duke senior’s commencement speech accused of plagiarism from Harvard student’s 2014 speech
