I can't find the exact article I was thinking of that was posted here a year or two back about young Japanese children being set free out into the world, almost

I can't find the exact article I was thinking of that was posted here a year or two back about young Japanese children being set free out into the world, almost as a right of passage, to run errands etc., but this Bloomberg captures a lot of what I remembered. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-28/in-japan-small-children-take-the-subway-and-run-errands-alone https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-28/in-japan-... Personally, I believe there is a compounding net good for society allowing children a decent amount of independence at a young age. Japan is certainly different to many other countries in terms of public safety, but I don't believe the outside world is the awful, scary, dangerous place the media constantly paints it out to be. It breaks my heart that I rarely see children playing outside in the streets anymore in the UK, when my youth in the 80s was basically spent largely outside without adult supervision.