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Articles on Bullying - 2006

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Bullying and School Crime Related Lawsuits

2007

15-year-old girl awarded 1 million yen in damages over school bullying; (EJ) December 21, 2007; The Kawasaki Municipal Board of Education conducted its own investigation, and in 2004 acknowledged that there had been malicious bullying based on ethnic discrimination.
Parents sue over injuries to son in junior high judo club; (J) December 15, 2007; Yokohama--According to the petition, the student suffered severe head injuries and memory loss after he was repeatedly thrown and put in holds by his junior high school judo teacher in December 2004. The boy and his parents are seeking 186 million yen in damages from the teacher, city and prefecture.
Girl, 17, sues city over bullying from junior high school days; (J) December 13, 2007
Schoolgirl sues over bullying meted out for exposing coach's sex harassment; (EJ) December 11, 2007
Vice-principal ordered to pay ¥ 400,000 yen for assaulting female staff member; (J) November 9, 2007
Kanagawa gov't settles for 10 million yen after death of student in Phys. Ed. class; (EJ) November 2, 2007
Court orders school to pay plaintiffs ¥ 4.8 million yen for modifying school syllabus; (J) November 1, 2007
Update: Kobe court to use video link in bullying case; (EJ) October 27, 2007; In the complaint, the boy claims he was repeatedly bullied by his classmates, including being tied up with rope, between 2005 and 2006. The boy suffered from autonomic nervous system dysfunction due to psychological trauma caused by the bullying and is currently being treated at a hospital.
- Student, parents seek ¥ 20 million in damages after group bullying; (J) January 30, 2007
- 2 high school students put on probation for bullying; (EJ) October 22, 2006
Court rejects compensation claim filed by parents of boy who was beaten to death; (EJ) September 26, 2007
Former high school girl files lawsuit in Nagano; (J) September 12, 2007; The 19-year-old girl claims she is suffering from a stress-related disability (PTSD?) after a teacher hit her on the head with a box-like object at school last year. She has filed a lawsuit against the prefecture seeking ¥19 million yen in damages at the Nagano District Court.
Boy seeks ¥ 3.9 million yen restitution over schoolyard bullying; (J) September 11, 2007; A 12-year-old Kobe boy is suing three of his former classmates (and their parents) at the Kobe District Court for compensation after bullying caused him physical and mental distress. According to the petition, between May 2005 and March 2006 the then elementary school classmates beat the boy on a daily basis and extorted a total of ¥370,000 yen from him.
Former student sues teacher, school over violence; (J) June 30, 2007; The 19-year-old claims the teacher hit him and broke his nose. He is seeking ¥3.3 million yen in compensation at the Kagoshima District Court.
Court rules bullying triggered schizophrenia; (EJ) May 25, 2007; The Hiroshima District Court on Thursday ruled that a high school boy's schizophrenia was partly due to his being bullied in middle school, and ordered four of his former classmates, the Hiroshima municipal and prefectural governments and others to pay about 8.3 million yen in compensation to the boy and his parents.
High court: Bullying caused teen's depression, suicide; (EJ) March 28, 2007; A landmark court ruling Wednesday sent a clear warning to school authorities not to be negligent if bullying occurs. The ruling by the Tokyo High Court clearly recognized a link between bullying and depression-induced suicide. The court, handing down its judgment in the suicide of 15-year-old Takehito Usui in 1999, awarded the boy's parents 11 million yen in compensation. Presiding Judge Hiromu Emi said Takehito "increasingly felt isolated due to bullying, which led him to take his own life." The ruling sets a legal precedent by clearly stating that bullied children can suffer from severe depression leading to suicide in the same way that overworked salaried workers can, observers say. They said school authorities should take the ruling to mean that schools will be held accountable if future bullying-suicide cases occur.
Parents of boy who committed suicide after school punishment file damages suit; (EJ) March 16, 2007; According to the lawsuit, the 11-year-old boy, a student at Kitakyushu Municipal Aoba Elementary School, started being physically punished by his 51-year-old female teacher in about April 2005, and sometimes came home crying. On March 16, 2006, he was grabbed by the collar and pushed down onto the floor. Afterwards he ran out of the classroom and committed suicide by hanging himself at his home.
Parents of bullied suicide girl sue for ¥20 million yen; (EJ) February 8, 2007; In October 2005, the girl jumped to her death from a condominium in Konosu, Saitama Prefecture. The parents said they asked the Kitamoto municipal government to investigate the circumstances surrounding their daughter's death, but no such probe was ever conducted. They insist that teachers at the school failed to fulfill their duty to prevent bullying, and that the municipal government similarly failed in its duty to properly investigate and report the death.
IJIME LAWSUIT: THE U HODEN CASE, 2000-present This lawsuit shows that racism exists very openly in the Japanese school system and may in fact be nearly uncontrollable, even by a Japanese board of education. It took the Board of Education over a year just to investigate and verify the original claim. Arudou Debito who translated this lawsuit information says that , "In the current press's frenzied return to the problems of bullying (ijime) within Japanese schools, sometimes one's ethnicity (in this case, a Chinese-Japanese grade schooler) becomes the bullying bone to pick. Years of negligence by both teachers and parents at a grade school in Kawasaki ultimately led to a public acknowledgment of the problem, an apology from the Board of Education and the school, and a demand for restitution. However, the bullies' parents refused to own up to anything, so Plaintiffs took them to court. TU Hoden, Professor at Japan Women's University and a naturalized Japanese is the father of the victim and the named Plaintiff in this case." (cached copy) original Japanese text.

Articles on Bullying

2007

Bullied Japanese cheerleader killed himself; (EJ) December 27, 2007; Bullying has long bedevilled Japan from schoolyards to workplaces. A government survey in November found 125,000 cases of bullying in elementary, middle and high schools in the year to March, but more cases are believed to go unreported.
Top Aichi high school wrestling club members suspended for bullying; (EJ) December 22, 2007
Nine teens arrested for assaulting two boys over slanderous Web posts; (EJ) December 20, 2007
Update: Two youths face arrest for extorting money from boy who later killed himself; (EJ) December 11, 2007
- High school boy hangs himself after assault by former schoolmates; (J) November 19, 2007
Update: Part of investigative records on student's suicide to be disclosed; (EJ) December 8, 2007
- Human rights violation acknowledged in '05 bully-suicide of 15-year-old girl; (J) May 26, 2007
Students face charges for setting teammate on fire; (EJ) December 6, 2007;
Britain and Japan study how to stop the bullies; (E) December 5, 2007; "In Japan, bullying tends to happen between very close friends, and the situation is often worsened because bystanders do not try and intervene. The bullying often takes the form of social exclusion rather than violence. "We therefore need to look at how to improve children's inter-relationships..."
Update: Suicide schoolgirl's father begs probe on possible bullying; (EJ) November 24, 2007
- 16-year-old girl leaves suicide message on phone before jumping off school roof; (EJ) November 22, 2006
School bullies increasingly tormenting victims online; (EJ) November 20, 2007; Until a few years ago, bullying was largely confined to the school playground and the classroom. But now bullies have found another means of intimidation--the Internet.
High school boy hangs himself after assault by former schoolmates; (J) November 19, 2007; The deceased boy's body was covered in scars and bruises from the neck down. In addition to the injuries he'd received the day before, some marks were thought to be weeks or even months old.
Bullying in schools skyrocketing; (EJ) November 16, 2007; The number of bullying cases reported in schools across Japan has risen sharply after officials broadened the term's definition following a series of bullying-linked student suicides, the Education Ministry said Thursday. A total of 124,898 cases of bullying were reported at elementary, junior high and high schools in the fiscal year ending in March 2007, up from 20,143 cases a year earlier, the ministry said. (Graph incl.)
Japan’s police see no evil; (EJ) November 9, 2007; The boy had been badly beaten but his death was ruled natural. The case was closed in an official culture that discourages autopsies.
- Boy wrestler’s death exposes sumo ‘cruelty’; (EJ) September 28, 2007; Yesterday’s tearful public appearance by the father of the dead boy is likely to destroy the dignified image of sumo for ever. The death of 17-year-old Takashi Saito has exposed it as a murky domain where bullying is rife and violence is part of daily life.
Bullying victim, 13, plunges from 3rd floor of school building; (J) November 1, 2007; The junior high school boy suffered a gash to his head and was taken to hospital after the apparent suicide attempt. The school and local board of education have acknowledged that the boy was bullied prior to the incident on October 29.
Schoolboy suffers depression over defamatory comments on cell-phone blog site; (EJ) November 1, 2007
Schools slow to respond to rise in 'Net bullying'; (E) October 26, 2007; Damage from "school behind-the-scenes Web sites" launched by junior high and high school students using mobile phones is also spreading. However, this phenomenon is hard to grasp because negative messages on personal computers and mobile phones are rarely seen by outsiders and the victims themselves have no idea where to turn to for help. "Not only are the central and local governments as well as schools slow in recognizing the issue, they are out of touch in terms of what's going on in the world of the Internet," Yasukawa said. "And our consultations are only the tip of the iceberg." Update: Internet bullying on the rise with countermeasures one step behind; 11/22.
Article about defamation on clandestine school websites; (J) October 24, 2007
Junior high school girl assaulted by classmates in Nagano; (J) October 23, 2007
Gifu board of education acknowledges 4259 cases of bullying within 4-month period; (J) October 20, 2007; The investigation was conducted at all 658 public schools in Gifu prefecture.
1348 cases of bullying reported at public schools in Kagoshima for fiscal '06; (J) October 11, 2007
Teen arrested for attempted murder after setting former classmate alight; (J) October 8, 2007; After a quarrel the high school boy, 17, got a gasoline-soaked towel and lit it while pressing it against the other boy's back. Burns to the 16-year-old victim will take around 2 months to heal.
Hokkaido: Cyber-bullying becoming more serious; (J) October 8, 2007; Libelous information in emails and on internet message boards have led to some victims dropping out of school. There have also been a number of criminal cases related to the problem.
Tokushima: Survey finds large no. of students have experienced bullying via harassing emails; (J) October 6, 2007
High school boy arrested for slashing violent classmate; (EJ) September 29, 2007
Update: Family of bullied girl applies for death benefit; (EJ) September 27, 2007
- 12-year-old girl jumps to her death in Osaka Pref.; (EJ) November 12, 2006
3 junior high school boys arrested for assaulting classmate in Kyoto; (J) September 26, 2007
2 more schoolboys arrested in connection with suicide of bullied classmate; (EJ) September 25, 2007
- School knew about defamatory comments on Net against boy who committed suicide; (EJ) September 21, 2007
- Photo showing private parts of teen who committed suicide was posted on Internet; (EJ) September 20, 2007
- Kobe student arrested over extortion of suicidal classmate; (EJ) September 17, 2007
Update: Family of schoolboy who killed himself over bullying to receive gov't compensation; (EJ) September 13, 2007
- Ministry of Justice acknowledges boy's human rights violated in bully-suicide death; (J) August 9, 2007
Public schools in Okayama Prefecture record sharp increase in bullying; (J) September 12, 2007; With 1803 cases in fiscal 2006 there was a 4-fold increase in bullying compared to the previous year, while school-related violence was also up at 976 cases. (Apparently violence and bullying are recorded separately.) Primary schools in the prefecture saw the largest rise in cases. (Graph.)
Consultations over bullying proliferate on children's hotline; (J) September 12, 2007; The number of consultations regarding bullying doubled last year with this year expected to surpass that of 2006. The children's rights hotline was set up to deal with problems of abuse, bullying, truancy and so on.
Consultations for bullying almost double in Shiga; (J) September 7, 2007
Surge in bullying at primary, middle schools in Niigata; (J) September 7, 2007; There were 1450 cases of bullying at elementary and junior high schools in Niigata Prefecture in 2006. This was a 3.4-fold increase over the previous year.
7 boys arrested for bashing student to death in Hokkaido; (EJ) August 28, 2007.
Bullying hotline handles 47,000 consultations in 6-month period; (J) August 21, 2007; From it's first day of operation on February 7 through to August 6 bullying hotline counselors handled 47,434 phone consultations nationwide. The 24-hour service received 60% of the calls at night and on public holidays.
Bullying up 3-fold at primary schools in Hiroshima Pref.; (J) August 13, 2007; Attached table shows number of bullying cases at elementary, junior high and high schools in the prefecture from 2002 through to 2006.
Malicious material posted on internet becomes serious problem; (J) August 11, 2007; Online bullying, threats, nude photos and other malicious content posted on so-called 'gakko ura saito' (clandestine school sites) by middle and high school students has teachers and parents concerned.
- In the hands of mean teens, cell phones becoming WMDs; (E) March 21, 2007.
Bullying reports in Tokyo jump 7-fold in 2006; (EJ) August 11, 2007.
Ministry of Justice acknowledges boy's human rights violated in bully-suicide death; (J) August 9, 2007; Ehime -- The 12-year-old junior high school boy hanged himself near a road in Imabari City on August 17th last year.
Bullying behind girl's suicide attempt; (J) August 1, 2007; Saga -- A city education board investigation has found that bullying was the main reason a 12-year-old child attempted suicide at her junior high school. The girl suffered serious injuries after leaping from a building.
5 teens arrested over schoolyard bullying; (J) July 18, 2007; Tokyo -- The junior high school boys aged 14-15 were arrested for assault and coercing other students into shoplifting etc.
Govt. to send counselors to primary schools over bullying problem; (J) July 5, 2007; In response to an increase in bullying-related suicides the Ministry of Science and Education is to dispatch counselors to primary schools from next year. At present counselors are mainly sent to junior high schools to give support and guidance to children who have been victims of bullying.
Sudden increase in bullying at schools in Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture; (J) June 28, 2007.
Photos of female student being bullied circulated on Internet; (EJ) June 19, 2007.
Update: Family court decides not to punish teens who bullied classmate before his suicide; (EJ) June 19, 2007;
- Police take action against school bullies following student's suicide; (EJ) February 19, 2007; According to the police, the five second-year bullies attempted to forcibly remove Keisuke's pants in a school bathroom around 4:15 p.m. on Oct. 11, 2006. That evening, Keisuke hanged himself in a shed in the garden of his home.
- Probe finds school responsible in suicide of bullied boy; (EJ) December 29, 2006; An investigative panel set up by the Chikuzen town education board in Fukuoka Prefecture said in a report Thursday that Miwa Junior High School bears grave responsibility for the suicide of a bullied pupil in October. The 13-year-old second-year student at the school hanged himself at his home on Oct 11, leaving a note saying, "I cannot live anymore because of the bullying."
- Committee says bullying to blame for teen's suicide; (EJ) December 12, 2006
- Bullying continues at school after victim commits suicide; (EJ) November 3, 2006; "We heard that the tactics were the same as for the boy who committed suicide," one of the classmate's furious parents said. "What on earth is the school doing?".
- School says teacher provoked bullying of student who hanged himself; (EJ) October 16, 2006; A junior high school teacher was the chief instigator of the bullying that tormented a 13-year-old student so much that he committed suicide.
Cellphone videos of student bullied in classroom spread on the Internet; (EJ) June 8, 2007; The other video showed the same student being punched and kicked in his back and head as he hugged another student.
Schoolboys forced to squat on toilet roof while airgun pellets shot at them; (J) June 1, 2007; Tokyo--Three 16-year-old boys who were arrested for violence made their younger schoolmates squat on a public toilet roof and fired airgun pellets at them. The youths also cut the hair of the 3 younger boys with clippers. The teenagers all attended the same junior high school in Tokyo when the incident took place in late February.
Human rights violation acknowledged in '05 bully-suicide of 15-year-old girl; (J) May 26, 2007; Yamaguchi -- The Ministry of Justice said that the girl's teacher knew she was being bullied but did nothing to stop it. The Ministry has told the girl's parents it is seeking counter-measures from the city's board of education and schools to prevent a recurrence of the problem. In April 2005 the junior high school student hanged herself at school.
'School violated human rights of girl who killed self after being bullied'; (EJ) May 22, 2007; When she was a second-year student at the school, the girl used her student diary, dated December 2004, to plead for help from her homeroom teacher, saying she was the victim of bullying. The following April, she hanged herself from a banister at the school using the neckerchief from her uniform.
Japan's schoolyard bullies go high-tech, teachers left eating virtual dust; (E) May 17, 2007; "Last year alone, the National Police Agency received 8,037 reported cases of online slander or defamation, a 39 percent increase over the previous year. Of these, 57 developed into criminal defamation cases where arrests were made. Both the number of reports and the number of arrests hit record highs," a police beat reporter for a national daily tells the weekly. Bullies use their knowledge about their victims to set up fake sites to slur them, or hurl abuse at them on sites originally set up for information sharing between students.
Boy, 14, arrested over extorting cash from classmate; (J) May 3, 2007; Another student, 13, who was also involved in the classroom bullying was reported to a child consultation centre. On two occasions the boys allegedly bullied and extorted ¥30,000 and ¥50,000 from a classmate.
Bulletin board supervisor faces charges for not deleting message calling girl 'ugly'; (EJ) April 27, 2007; After the supervisor did nothing in response to the mother's request, the mother reported the case to police. Osaka police investigators managed to identify the supervisor and the girl who wrote the slanderous message. Police reported the girl to a local child consultation center for defamation of character.
High school students arrested for assault and rape of 14-year-old friend; (J) April 20, 2007.
Chiba prefecture: 200% increase in consultations over schoolyard bullying for 2006; (J) April 13, 2007.
Teacher given reprimand following abusive outburst; (J) March 30, 2007; An education board in Fukuoka has reprimanded a junior high school teacher after he slapped a 15-year-old boy on the cheek and said he would hack the boy up. The teacher apologised to the boy and his parents later the same day but failed to report the incident to the school.
Justice Ministry investigations into school bullying surged in 2006; (EJ) March 30, 2007; A total of 973 of the cases involved bullying at school, a 35.9 percent increase from the number of cases the previous year. Another 142 cases involved abuse by workers at social welfare facilities, an increase of 21.4 percent compared to 2005.
Net defamation hits record high in '06 / NPA concerned about rising number of online youth bullying cases; (EJ) March 29, 2007; Particularly problematic is the number of defamation cases involving bullying and other problems among middle and high school students. In some cases, victims refused to go to school or attempted suicide.
Boy faces 15 years in prison for stabbing high school girl to death; (EJ) March 27, 2007; The boy, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, came to hate his classmate, Yua Koyama, 15, because she apparently was cold toward him.
Update: Youth faces prosecution for extorting money from boy who later committed suicide; (EJ) March 27, 2007; A 15-year-old youth accused of trying to extort money from a 14-year-old schoolboy who later committed suicide was reported to public prosecutors on Tuesday, police said.
- Saitama boy, 14, commits suicide after schoolmate demanded money; (EJ) November 13, 2006.
In the hands of mean teens, cell phones becoming WMDs; (E) March 21, 2007; Accessed mainly via mobile phones, these so-called "gakko ura saito" (clandestine school sites), reports Aera, have created a new form of group bullying that's spurring a whole generation of anonymous slanderers who make old-fashioned bullies and meanies seem almost preferable by comparison. After all, in old-style "ijime," at least you know who your tormentor is. The electronic version is just as vicious, if not more so, because electronic communications afford complete anonymity. And of course it's far more difficult for school authorities to intervene, let alone identify the instigators or implement disciplinary measures.
High school girl busted for poisoning classmate; (EJ) March 13, 2007; The arrested girl conspired with the two to lace the 16-year-old girl's drink with a bleaching agent at their school on May 30, 2006, causing her to suffer chemical poisoning for three days, local police said.
Junior high school boy's name published on internet as main character in porno novel; (J) March 10, 2007; After finding out his name had been published in a pornographic story the boy was in shock and was temporarily absent from school. One part of the online narrative has the boy repeatedly committing indecent acts on 5 female students. The girls, whose names were also published, attend the same school as the boy. Police in Akita are investigating the matter as bullying and defamation of character.
16-year-old boy held for making threats, forcing jnr. high school girl to send him nude images of herself; (J) March 7, 2007.
Teens arrested for bullying girl who exposed their actions on blog; (EJ) March 6, 2007.
Update: Ministry's bullying hotline receives 5722 calls in first 3 weeks of operation; (EJ) March 1, 2007; (Update in Japanese only.)
- Bullying hotline goes into effect across Japan; (EJ) February 21, 2007.
Update: Pay reduction for school principal after investigation into student's death; (J) February 28, 2007; The Hokkaido educational committee looking into the bully-suicide death of a 12-year-old primary school girl in early 2006 found the principal, vice-principal and home-room teacher failed to properly investigate the matter or give adequate support to the victim. As punishment the principal's salary is to be reduced for one month while the vice-principle and home-room teacher have both received warnings.
- Investigation reveals girl's suicidal death in Hokkaido last year was due to bullying; (J) December 5, 2006; The 12-year-old elementary school student attempted suicide in September 2005 and died of her injuries 4 months later.
High school boy scalded with boiling water, 4 classmates arrested; (J) February 27, 2007; The 15-year-old victim was beaten and had boiling water poured over him in an attack that lasted about 45 minutes. Burns to the boy's back are expected to take 6 months to heal completely. The incident occurred at a Hyogo school dormitory in December last year where the boys were boarding together.
Gov't panel on schoolyard bullying calls for cooperation between schools, communities; (EJ) February 27, 2007.
Gifu prefectural committee announces 10,908 cases of bullying last year; (J) February 23, 2007; The survey was carried out at 585 primary and junior high schools in the prefecture.
Parents of bullied girl reach settlement with former classmates in bully-suicide case; (J) February 22, 2007; In 1998 the then 15-year-old victim was driven to suicide after schoolyard bullying. The settlement was reached at the Tokyo high court after the 3 former classmates agreed to apologise and pay condolence money of ¥3 million yen.
Ministry to distribute bullying case studies; (EJ) February 18, 2007.
Crimes linked to bullying hit 20-year high in 2006; (EJ) February 15, 2007; The number of crimes committed by juveniles, including assault causing injury and extortion, that are attributable to bullying increased by 68 to 233 last year, the most in 20 years, National Police Agency officials said Thursday.
Students grapple with classroom bullying as adults blame each other; (E) February 11, 2007; The furor has also grimly illustrated that despite a decade of education reform and soul-searching, Japan's fight against the endemic bullying in its pressure-cooker schools has failed to vanquish the problem. Some say the scourge is only getting worse. "Bullying is nothing new, but I don't recall hearing about as many cases that are linked to suicide as there are now," said Kotoe Yonezawa, who oversees Toyota Child Hotline, which counsels distressed youth.... "Bullying is everywhere in the world, but it is significantly long-term, inhumane and malicious in Japan," said lawyer Yuji Kodama, who is representing a mother and father who are suing the government over their daughter's suicide.
Mom names late son at bullying meet; (EJ) February 10, 2007; "This is the third time bullying has become so rampant," education critic Naoki Ogi said at the meeting. "The number of reported cases of bullying--currently 20,000--may increase to 1 million with the change in surveying methods."
2 boys arrested over 700 harassing e-mails to female student; (EJ) February 9, 2007; It is rare for minors to be arrested under the ordinance for such actions, but police were concerned the boys would try to conceal evidence by deleting records of the transmissions. Police also cited the huge number of malicious messages involved.
Ministry of Education sets up bullying consultation service; (J) February 7, 2007; The nationwide 24-hr phone service will be available for children troubled by bullying.
Repentant bully commits suicide; (EJ) February 3, 2007; A 14-year-old middle school student who had been reprimanded by his school for bullying a classmate with other students killed himself Thursday by jumping from the eighth floor of a nine-story apartment building in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture. The student also might have been bullied as he told a teacher that he felt he had been ostracized.
Update: Student, parents seek ¥20 million in damages after group bullying; (J) January 30, 2007
- 2 high school students put on probation for bullying; (EJ) October 30, 2006; The victim now depends on a wheelchair as it has become difficult for him to walk due to the trauma.
Update: Committee apologizes to parents following improper bully-suicide investigation, Saitama; (J) January 29, 2007.
- Saitama: Parents, local government at odds over report into 14-year-old girl's suicide; (J) December 12, 2006; In her suicide note the girl wrote that she had been called a cockroach and so on although at the time the city reported the main reason for her suicide was unknown. After a reinvestigation the report was amended to state that bullying could also be considered a reason for her death in June, 2004.
Principal faces ax for school's inappropriate response to bullying; (EJ) January 26, 2007; A nonprofit organization supporting schoolchildren bitterly criticized the school. "The school's unbelievably irresponsible response hurt the student more than the bullying did. In many cases, schoolchildren refuse to attend school after being bullied because of teachers' indifferences or their inappropriate response to bullying," said an official from the group.
Half of 4th grade students in Saitama have experienced bullying according to prefectural survey; (J) January 25, 2007; The figure was 39.3% when all grades were included.
Survey finds more than 20,000 children being bullied at Hokkaido schools; (J) January 24, 2007
Prime minister backs harsher punishment for school bullies; (EJ) January 22, 2007; Bullying has long been a major concern in Japanese schools, where students face intense pressure to perform well on entrance exams and conform with their peers. Victims of bullying are often blamed for inviting the abuse, increasing their sense of isolation and shame.
Ministry finally recognizes bullying as factor in 14 child suicides; (EJ) January 19, 2007; The results of the reinvestigations have called into question the integrity of boards of education across the country, which had reported that no schoolchildren had killed themselves as a result of bullying.

2006

Articles on Bullying - 2006

Child Suicides

2007

Iwate high school student leaps to his death from school building; (J) December 25, 2007
High school boy killed by train in Kitakyushu; (J) December 15, 2007
Schoolboy dies in fatal leap from school building; (EJ) December 3, 2007
High school boy dies after being hit by train at level crossing; (J) November 30, 2007
14-year-old girl killed by train in suspected suicide; (EJ) November 28, 2007
Boy, 17, found dead in park in possible suicide; (J) November 23, 2007; Osaka--An empty box of headache pills and empty bottle of shochu were found near the boy's body.
Boy suffers broken legs, pelvis after leaping from junior high school building; (J) October 31, 2007
Teen attempts suicide after slipping away from child welfare facility; (J) October 24, 2007
15-year-old girl leaps to her death at primary school; (J) October 20, 2007
High school boy hangs himself at home; (J) October 18, 2007
Boy, 15, leaps to his death in Osaka, leaves suicide note; (J) October 10, 2007
High rate of depression seen among primary, junior high students; (EJ) October 9, 2007
Boy plunges to his death from shopping centre car park; (J) October 3, 2007
1 killed in multiple hit-and-run after sisters plunge from highway overpass; (EJ) September 29, 2007
Student slashes wrist and takes fatal leap from 4-story high school building; (EJ) September 27, 2007
Boy jumps to his death from 43rd floor apartment after row over video game; (EJ) September 27, 2007
16-year-old boy found dead in apparent suicide; (EJ) September 23, 2007; According to the Japanese language media, the teenager's parents divorced last year and he had been absent from school since June this year.
Junior high school boy dies after jumping off residential building; (EJ) September 12, 2007
High school boy hangs himself in bicycle racing club's room at school; (EJ) September 11, 2007
Teenager in serious condition after suicide attempt; (J) September 5, 2007; Chiba--The junior high school girl plunged from a 4th floor toilet window at her school despite a warning from another student not to do so.
Girl, 14, dies after jumping from station platform into oncoming train; (J) September 3, 2007
Suicide suspected after high school boy plunges to death; (J) August 20, 2007.
Girl, 13, leaps to her death from school building; (J) July 12, 2007.
Death benefits to be paid if child commits suicide outside school; (EJ) July 6, 2007.
13-year-old boy hangs self at home; (J) July 5, 2007; Osaka--The 2nd year junior high school student had been verbally abused by classmates in May 2006 and in April this year but the local board of education said it sees no link between this and the boy's suicide.
10% of elementary school students feel depressed; (EJ) June 27, 2007; More than 10 percent of fourth- to six-graders at elementary school feel depressed and are four times more likely to think about suicide than their peers, a group of researchers found.
Boy hangs self at reform school in Kyoto; (J) June 26, 2007.
Tokyo teens kill selves in Kyushu; (EJ) June 22, 2007.
Record 886 students killed themselves in 2006; (EJ) June 7, 2007; The number of student suicides had hovered between 600 and 700 since 2000. But the figure surpassed 800 for two straight years from 2005, according to the NPA.
17-year-old girl hangs self at her high school; (EJ) May 30, 2007.
Junior high school girl leaps to her death from Kanagawa apartment block; (J) May 28, 2007.
High school girl plunges to death from apartment block in Kobe; (J) May 10, 2007.
25 percent of students at junior high school claim to suffer from depression; (EJ) May 10, 2007; Many of those who commit suicide are depressed or have other mental illness. Experts say that measures against depression are important steps to prevent suicide.
High school boy hangs self from curtain railing in classroom; (J) May 6, 2007.
Junior high school boy dies after being hit by train at railway crossing; (J) April 18, 2007; Ishikawa - A suicide note was found at the 14-year-old boy's house.
13-year-old leaps to death from school building in Himeji; (EJ) April 18, 2007; Police found the boy's shoes placed together on the landing of the stairs on the fourth floor of one of the buildings at the school, along with what appeared to be a suicide note.
17-year-old girl dies after being hit by train in Shizuoka; (E) April 16, 2007; A 17-year-old high school girl died after being hit by a train at a crossing in Shizuoka on Sunday night in an apparent suicide, police said Monday.
High school girl hit, killed by freight train in Fukushima; (EJ) April 15, 2007; The police suspect the girl intended to commit suicide.
Body of 16-year-old found after fire at parents' house; (J) April 6, 2007; A smell of gasoline came from the room where the fire started and in which the boy's body was found. According to investigators the teenager's death appeared to be a suicide.
Boy, 14, pours gasoline over self, threatens suicide outside convenience store; (J) March 27, 2007; After saying he was going to die the boy threatened to set himself alight. He was subdued by a police officer who rushed to the scene before any injuries were caused.
Update: Parents visit Ministry of Education, demand thorough investigation into son's suicide; (J) March 15, 2007; (Update in Japanese only.)
- Teenage boy worried about grades hangs self at school with judo belt; (EJ) February 27, 2007.
Elementary school boy unconscious after plunging from building; (EJ) March 15, 2007.
High school boy breaks pelvis after leaping from school building; (J) March 14, 2007; Complaining of a stomachache the 16-year-old went to a 4th floor toilet from where he apparently jumped.
Student found hanged day after suicide attempt; (EJ) March 11, 2007; A member of Kishi's family said angrily, "If they (the school) informed us earlier, we might have been able to stop the suicide."
High school girl hangs self from emergency ladder, friend escapes with minor injuries; (EJ) March 6, 2007.
Body of 15-year-old boy found beside railway tracks, suicide likely; (J) February 28, 2007; When found the boy had toy handcuffs attached to his left wrist, both feet were bound with a plastic cord and his mouth was covered with adhesive tape. Although the circumstances of the boy's death seem suspicious there was apparently no evidence to suggest it was more than a case of suicide. The cause of death was shock caused by heavy wounds suffered when he was hit by a train.
School boy burnt to death in apparent suicide; (J) February 27, 2007; The 17-year-old covered himself in kerosene before setting himself alight. According to the principle at the boy's school bullying was not thought to be a factor in his death. A passer-by found the body near a bridge in Wakayama.
Sixth grader plunges from third-floor terrace of school building; (EJ) January 17, 2007.
11-year-old hangs self in school toilet; (EJ) January 10, 2007.

Offences Against Children by Teachers

2007

Teacher punished for intimidating student who rejected recommended university; (EJ) December 28, 2007
Update: Ex-school vice principal gets slap on wrist for sex with child prostitutes; (EJ) December 28, 2007
- Arrested school vice principal says he is a 'superstar' among pedophiles; (EJ) October 2, 2007
Teachers reprimanded in 3 prefectures over sexual misconduct, alcohol-related incidents; (J) December 27, 2007; Prefectural education boards in Hokkaido, Mie and Niigata have dismissed, suspended or reduced salaries of more than 20 teachers for incidents ranging from sexual offences with minors to allowing pupils to drink alcohol.
Hiroshima teacher arrested for posting child porn images online; (J) December 26, 2007
Update: Teacher outs own student-centric kiddy porn stash after blackmail threats; (EJ) December 24, 2007
- Elementary school security guard arrested over kiddy porn blackmail attempt; (EJ) November 29, 2007
Boy, 9, concussed after teacher assaults him; (EJ) December 23, 2007
Teacher has primary school kids strip naked for 'examination'; (J) December 21, 2007; Osaka--A male primary school teacher has been dismissed after making 13 children take off their underwear on the pretext that he was checking for signs of abuse and bullying.
Nagasaki high school teacher sacked for squeezing schoolgirl's breasts; (EJ) December 17, 2007
High school teacher axed for having sexual relationship with student; (J) December 12, 2007
Teacher to face prosecutors for secretly filming primary school girls undressing; (J) December 12, 2007
Teacher quits after punishment for lifting up schoolgirls' skirts; (EJ) December 11, 2007
Elementary school teacher arrested for paying 13-year-old girl for sex; (EJ) December 7, 2007
Teacher arrested for sneak shots up schoolgirl's skirt; (EJ) December 4, 2007
Teacher gains reprieve after committing indecent act with schoolgirl; (J) December 3, 2007
Teacher arrested for fondling schoolgirl's private parts on train; (J) November 29, 2007
Schoolgirls' woodwind instructor tells them sex good for their musical talents; (EJ) November 29, 2007
Teacher arrested for posting images of naked children on website; (J) November 27, 2007
PE teacher arrested for groping schoolgirl's breasts; (EJ) November 24, 2007
Junior high school teacher arrested in sex for private lessons case; (EJ) November 24, 2007; Okayama--A former public junior high school teacher who provided a 14-year-old schoolgirl with private lessons in her home in exchange for performing sex acts on her has been arrested, police said.
Govt must face up to reality of domestic violence, rising sexual crime; (E) November 22, 2007; There seems to be no end in sight to sexual offenses committed by schoolteachers. To cite only a couple of recent examples, a middle school vice principal lured a female stranger into a bar and stripped off her underwear when she fell asleep after being plied with drink. A vice principal at a primary school paid a girl to have sex and also took obscene photos of a number of women he became acquainted with on the street, later publishing the photos in a magazine. In the 2005 academic year, 124 teachers at public schools across the nation were subject to disciplinary action for sexual offenses, including child prostitution and secretly taking images of women. A decade ago, this figure stood at just 27, meaning that lewd acts committed by teachers have risen alarmingly.
Drunk teacher fired for molesting schoolgirl on train; (J) November 19, 2007
School coach charged after driving golf ball into student's face; (EJ) November 19, 2007
Vice-principal in hot water over obscene behaviour with girl; (J) November 17, 2007; The Utsunomiya Board of Education announced that the vice principal of a primary school run by the municipal government was found to have repeatedly molested schoolgirls. The vice principal used pretexts such as "taking the girls' measurements" so he could touch their bodies, his school said. In September two other teachers from the same city were arrested for child prostitution and sexual assault.
2 Kanagawa teachers fired for indecent behaviour; (J) November 13, 2007
Junior high school teacher fractures student's collar bone; (J) November 8, 2007; When the first-grader showed a defiant attitude to participating in a practice chorus session for a school festival, the infuriated music teacher pushed the boy against a wall, then threw him to the floor.
Teacher disciplined after corporal punishment leads to injury; (J) November 7, 2007
Elementary teacher fired for molesting at least 10 girls at his school; (EJ) November 7, 2007
Hokkaido: 11 teachers disciplined for indecent behaviour, other violations; (J) October 31, 2007; One teacher was fired for having sexual relations with a student while another was dismissed for groping and kissing a junior high school girl.
Junior high school girl accuses principal of sexually harassing her; (EJ) October 31, 2007
Teacher pinched for fondling school girl's bottom on train; (EJ) October 31, 2007
Abusive teacher terrified primary school kids; (J) October 29, 2007; Aichi--During class the teacher punched, or used a wooden set square to belt the children around their heads. He also used abusive language, telling the students to "die" and so on.
Teacher abuse of students feared rampant at Ibaraki high school; (EJ) October 29, 2007
- Drunk teacher kicks girl in face causing serious injury; (J) October 25, 2007; Ibaraki--The high school teacher ordered 13 girls from the badminton club to kneel down at the school's boarding house. After they did this he kicked 4 of the girls in the face and shoulders. One student, 17, suffered injuries to her mouth that will take about a month to heal. The teacher has been suspended from school duties for 12 months.
Junior high school teacher fired for molesting student, taking nude photos of her; (EJ) October 25, 2007
Female teacher held over indecent behaviour with former student; (J) October 17, 2007
Teacher arrested for indecent behaviour with high school girl; (J) October 16, 2007
Fore! Teacher hits OB over sexy messages to schoolgirls written on balls; (EJ) October 16, 2007
Teacher to face prosecutors for secretly filming schoolgirls undressing; (J) October 16, 2007
Junior high school boy injured after teacher throws chair; (J) October 3, 2007
School takes steps to comfort kids after vice-principal's child sex arrest; (EJ) October 2, 2007
- Arrested school vice principal says he is a 'superstar' among pedophiles; (EJ) October 2, 2007
Teacher arrested for assaulting high school student; (J) October 2, 2007; Wakayama--The teacher hit the 17-year-old boy in the face causing serious injury to his left eye.
Cram school teacher held for committing indecent act on student; (J) October 1, 2007
Female teacher arrested for having sex with 16-year-old student; (EJ) September 27, 2007
Teacher fired for filming up schoolgirl's skirt in bookstore; (J) September 26, 2007
Teacher arrested over indecent behavior with high school girl; (EJ) September 26, 2007
Teacher arrested for paying runaway teen for sex; (J) September 25, 2007; Shizuoka City--The primary school teacher met the 17-year-old girl through a cell phone dating site.
Cram school teacher arrested for child prostitution; (J) September 18, 2007; The suspect paid ¥32,000 to have sex with a 14-year-old girl at an Utsunomiya City hotel.
Update: Teacher who forced students to run in nude suspended for 2 months; (EJ) September 14, 2007
Teacher arrested for child prostitution in Tochigi; (J) September 10, 2007
Part-time teacher arrested for groping teenager in shop; (J) September 8, 2007
Former cram school teacher handed 16-year jail term for sexually assaulting girls; (EJ) September 7, 2007
Manager of cram school held for sexually assaulting former student, 17; (J) September 6, 2007
Teacher punches 3 students for tardiness during school trip; (J) September 4, 2007
Former headmaster, 64, molests primary school girl; (J) September 3, 2007
2 teachers in Gifu fired for child prostitution, drunk driving; (J) September 1, 2007
High school teacher busted for exposing himself to school girls; (J) August 31, 2007
Teacher arrested for having sex with high school girl; (J) August 30, 2007
Mie teacher arrested for touching student's breasts at pool; (EJ) August 28, 2007
Teacher strikes girl with hearing disability; (J) August 24, 2007; The teacher at the Sapporo school for the deaf kicked and hit the primary school girl because he wanted her to be quiet. Two other teachers at the school are also suspected of having used corporal punishment on students.
Corporal punishment: Teacher holds boy upside down, drops him to floor; (J) August 22, 2007; Fukuoka -- The first grade junior high school student avoided injury in the June '07 incident but in July, in a separate incident, a second grader required 8 stitches to his head when the same teacher hit him with a table tennis bat.
School teacher arrested for having sex with minor; (EJ) August 21, 2007.
Part-time teacher held for indecently assaulting schoolgirl; (J) August 21, 2007; Nagano City -- The part-time elementary school teacher was arrested for molesting the 8-year-old girl and taking nude pictures of her at his home. The child, who was a friend of the suspect's daughter, was staying overnight at his house.
Junior high school teacher strikes boy with metal chair; (J) August 13, 2007; The 13-year-old boy received light injuries to his arm.
Teacher busted for groping high school girl on bicycle; (J) August 8, 2007.
Elementary school teacher collared for stalking high school girl; (EJ) August 3, 2007.
Teacher arrested for sexually assaulting high school girl; (J) August 2, 2007
Update: Former teacher handed 2-year prison term for molesting 9-year-old girl; (J) July 28, 2007.
- Gunma teacher arrested for molesting child in primary school toilet; (J) March 1, 2007.
Teacher held for having sex with 15-year-old girl; (J) July 23, 2007.
High school teacher reprimanded over sexual harassment of student; (J) July 22, 2007.
Teacher in Fukuoka arrested for having sex with teenage girl; (J) July 7, 2007.
Cram school teacher busted for child prostitution; (J) July 7, 2007.
Sexual harassment a growing concern at school; (E) July 9, 2007.
Teacher collared for kicking female student in stomach; (EJ) July 7, 2007.
Update: Ex-teacher sentenced for posting photos of dead children on Web site; (EJ) July 5, 2007; The former teacher, Toshio Watanabe, 34, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years' imprisonment, suspended for five years with probation, after being convicted of crimes including violating Japan's Copyright Law. Watanabe had about 800,000 images of children and corpses on his personal computer, and in about 2000 he set up a Web site called "Club Kids." Photographs of children who died in traffic accidents were posted on the site, and the site was accessed about 200,000 times over a seven year period, the court found.
- Update: Teacher held for emailing child porn images hit with new charge; (EJ) March 27, 2007.
- Update: Teacher accused of posting photos of dead kids online arrested over child pornography; (EJ) February 7, 2007.
- Complaint filed against teacher who posted photos of dead children on his Web site; (EJ) December 4, 2006; The 33-year-old teacher's Web site is said to also contain pictures of children who died from abuse or in natural disasters. Some of the photos showed the children naked.
Kanagawa teacher reprimanded for putting 'I am an idiot' note on student's back; (EJ) July 3, 2007.
Teacher faces prosecution for inflicting head injuries on boy during judo practice; (J) July 2, 2007; Yokohama--The junior high school teacher relentlessly threw and used judo holds on the 3rd grade student until the boy temporarily lost consciousness. When the 17-year-old started to regain his senses the teacher resumed the assault as "a remedy for the boy's bad attitude." Consequently the teenager suffered serious brain injuries.
Cram school teacher handed 3-year prison term for abducting 2 students; (EJ) June 26, 2007.
- Cram school teacher nabbed for abducting children had past conviction; (EJ) April 4, 2007; The incident occurred only months after Sugiyama received a suspended sentence for abducting two children in another incident in Yokohama. In October 2006, the 24-year-old was arrested for abducting two boys from an elementary school in Yokohama's Kanagawa-ku while working as an education volunteer, and holding them for about 20 hours. An investigation by the Yokohama Municipal Government showed that Sugiyama had also abducted five elementary school boys in November and December 2005 while working as a volunteer at other schools.
Teacher disciplined for putting trash can on student's head, hurling him against door; (J) June 22, 2007; To punish a student over a relatively trivial matter the teacher put a rubbish bin on the boy's head and whacked it before grabbing his arms and throwing him against a door. The teenager suffered minor injuries in the incident which happened at a school lodging for first year students. The Fukuoka board of education has reduced the 47-year-old teacher's salary by 10% for 3 months as a disciplinary measure.
Cram school teacher gets 7½ years behind bars for attempted rape of high school girls; (J) June 20, 2007; The man used a knife to molest 5 girls aged between 16 and 18 over a 3 year period from November 2003. He also stole cell phones and cash from his victims worth ¥80,000.
Tokyo teacher arrested for molesting junior high school girl; (J) June 18, 2007.
Teacher forced soccer players to run naked after missing penalties; (EJ) June 12, 2007
Former teacher gets 2-year prison term for molesting 5-year-old in school toilet; (J) June 3, 2007.
Hokkaido board of education fires 3 teachers for sexual relations with young girls, another sacked for drunk-driving; (J) May 31, 2007.
Teacher told student to urinate in classroom; (EJ) May 29, 2007.
Kagawa board of education fires teacher for molesting minor; (J) May 26, 2007.
Teacher to be disciplined for taking photos up girls' skirts at primary school; (J) May 21, 2007.
Ex-high school teacher collared for molesting sports club members; (EJ) May 19, 2007; The 49-year-old former teacher at a Wakayama prefectural high school, whose name was not immediately disclosed, is accused of indecent assault. The prefectural board of education dismissed him in late March following revelations that he molested five girls.
- Wakayama high school teacher fired for obscene behaviour; (J) March 29, 2007; According to the prefectural board of education the 49-year-old teacher sexually harassed 5 female students between July last year and January this year.
Chiba board of education sacks 2 teachers for molesting students; (J) May 19, 2007.
Update: Teacher convicted of child prostitution, gets suspended sentence; (J) May 17, 2007.
- Teacher busted for having sex with 13-year-old girl; (J) April 12, 2007; The teacher paid 30,000 yen to have sex with the junior high school student at a hotel.
Prosecutor seeks 7-year prison term for ex-teacher accused of rape; (J) May 11, 2007; Gunma -- Of the 6 junior high school girls he sexually assaulted one was a 12-year-old who was raped repeatedly between April and August last year.
- Gunma prefectural committee rejects claim for retirement allowance to former teacher accused of raping students; (J) April 4, 2007.
Teacher arrested for groping female student at school; (J) May 11, 2007.
Girl sexually abused by teacher sues; (EJ) May 10, 2007; A teenage girl in Hokkaido is suing for 105 million yen in damages following repeated sexual assaults by a junior high school teacher that left her with post-traumatic stress disorder, her lawyer said Thursday. The suit also claims the school and the Hokkaido prefectural board of education neglected to take any measures, and is seeking the damages from the teacher, the school principal and local government.
School teacher caught filming up girls' skirts with remote-controlled camera; (EJ) May 8, 2007.
Ex-teacher found guilty of child prostitution, given suspended sentence; (J) May 3, 2007.
Junior high school teacher arrested for indecent behaviour with former student; (J) May 1, 2007
Teacher who molested mentally disabled girl in civil trial dispute; (J) April 28, 2007.
Hokkaido teacher arrested for paying junior high school girl for sex; (J) April 22, 2007.
Teacher busted for having sex with junior high school girl; (EJ) April 18, 2007.
Teacher arrested for molesting former student; (J) April 12, 2007; The incident took place at a Nagoya hotel in early February.
Teacher busted for repeatedly molesting girl he was teaching; (EJ) April 11, 2007.
Teacher nabbed for secretly filming up high school student's skirt in convenience store; (J) April 7, 2007.
Gunma prefectural committee rejects claim for retirement allowance to former teacher who raped student; (J) April 4, 2007.
Teacher convicted of 11 counts of child prostitution gets 2-year prison sentence; (EJ) March 27, 2007; He was also convicted of creating child pornography by photographing the girls nude on his cell phone. The 42-year-old reportedly traveled in his car to meet the girls, whom he had met through Internet dating sites.
Education board fires jnr. high school teacher for sexually harassing students, another gets pay cut for encouraging schoolyard bullying; (J) March 22, 2007.
Customs official, teacher busted for paying junior high school girl for sex; (EJ) March 20, 2007.
Former teacher gets 3½-year prison term for attempted rape of jnr. high school student; (J) March 19, 2007.
Gunma schools told to investigate student-teacher relations; (EJ) March 17, 2007; The move is in response to the arrest of four public school teachers in the prefecture since the end of last year over their sexual relations with students.
Okinawa junior high school teacher arrested for having sex with school girl; (J) March 15, 2007.
Gunma teacher sacked for secretly taking photos in public toilets; (J) March 15, 2007; The high school teacher is suspected of placing a camera in women's toilets and peeping under toilet doors. Papers on his case have been sent to the public prosecutor.
High school teacher given 6-month suspension for kissing student; (J) March 14, 2007
Phys. Ed. teacher arrested for buying 15-year-old hooker; (EJ) March 10, 2007.
Teacher sacked for sexual harassment of high school girl; (J) March 9, 2007; The male teacher took advantage of the girl when she stayed behind after school to discuss a family problem.
Cram school teacher gets 18 years in prison for fatally stabbing student; (EJ) March 6, 2007.
High school teacher busted for child prostitution; (EJ) March 2, 2007; Hara paid a total of 40,000 yen to two 14-year-old girls to have sex with him at a hotel in Matsue on the night of Jan. 30, local police said.
Gunma teacher arrested for molesting girl in primary school toilet; (J) March 1, 2007.
Teacher re-arrested for having sex with 12-year-old student; (J) February 21, 2007; The teacher allegedly assaulted the primary school girl at a hotel in Gunma prefecture. He is also being held for sexual offences against 5 other students of junior high school and high school age.
Elementary school principal faces punishment for molesting three girls; (EJ) February 20, 2007; The principal put his hand inside the underwear of the three girls and molested them in other ways while engaging in sumo matches with the victims at the school on the morning of Feb. 8, board officials said.
Junior high school teacher arrested for child prostitution; (J) February 14, 2007; The 51-year-old teacher met the high school girl through a telephone dating site.
Papers sent to public prosecutor for teacher charged with assaulting student; (J) February 3, 2007; The junior high school teacher struck the 13-year-old boy's head against a bulletin board. The teacher was under the impression that the boy had locked him out of the classroom when, in fact, it was another student. The boy was traumatised and needed medical treatment but is now back at school.
Update: Junior high school teacher gets 2½-year prison sentence suspended for 5 years; (EJ) February 1, 2007; According to the ruling the teacher engaged in indecent acts with a high school girl while knowing she was underage. He also threatened to distribute nude photos of a junior high school student unless she met with him. (Update in Japanese only.)
- Update: Teacher re-arrested on child prostitution charge; (EJ) November 28, 2006; The junior high school teacher was arrested in early November for threatening to distribute naked photos of a 14-year-old female student. He is also facing charges of having had sex with a 17-year-old girl. Update in Japanese only.
- Teacher arrested for trying to blackmail student into date using naked photos; (EJ) November 5, 2006.
Teacher arrested for indecent assault at Kanagawa school; (EJ) January 25, 2007; The incident came to light when the victim reported the incident to her parents. She has complained that the teacher molested her on other occasions. Some other students at the school have filed complaints with law enforcers, accusing him of molesting them.
Junior high school teacher accused of sexually harassing students; (J) January 13, 2007; The male teacher is being investigated for groping 2 boys at school and for sending emails with sexual content to 3 students.

2006

Articles on Bullying, Teachers' Sex Offences Against Children - 2006

Bullying/Racism and Other Crime in Japanese Schools - 2007

Bullying and School Crime Related Lawsuits

2007

Articles on Bullying

2007

2006

Child Suicides

2007

Offences Against Children by Teachers

2007

2006

Other School-related Crime and Problems

2007