Tokyo Metropolitan Government: a box of education grant survey forms from kindergartens and elementary schools went missing at its Bureau of Citizens, Culture and Sports, along with 3,646 pieces of personal data

1. 2021-04-23

   Staff checked the office and noticed that the storage box holding the survey forms was missing. It had been placed near documents to be discarded, so it was most likely thrown out with them by mistake. [1]

2. 2021-04-27

   The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced the case. [1]

The missing items are the 2017 education grant survey forms of 108 kindergartens and 53 elementary schools, which carried 3,646 pieces of personal data. They included the names, ages, years of service, salaries, days worked, subjects taught, licenses and mutual aid association numbers of 3,328 teaching and other staff. [1]

There were also documents about pupils and parents at 44 elementary schools, with the names, household circumstances, reasons for sudden changes in household finances and tuition reduction records of 44 pupils, and the names, guardians' names, places of residence and lengths of stay of 264 children who had returned from abroad. [1]