OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Child advocate officials in Japan turned to an old friend to help with the country’s problem of excessive child abuse.

Japanese officials said that help began years ago from a man who was working right here in Omaha.

In 1947, Boys Town founder Father Edward Flanagan, at the request of President Harry Truman, went to Japan to help war orphans.

“He actually visited Nagasaki, Hiroshima, saw children injured from the bombing, and then he saw children that were homeless, they’re living in sewers, and no one was taking care of them, and he knew there was a great need,” said Tom Lynch, Boys Town historian.

The Japanese government and the Allied Forces did not know what to do with these children. So they looked to Flanagan

Father Flanagan created a report called “Children

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