
After scandal at Shiga shocked the nation, a survey of over a million Japanese has revealed the unshocking truth of bullying in Japan – that most Japanese have been bullied, some 40% have got in on the action themselves, and that massive numbers have considered killing themselves as a result of the torment inflicted.
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A boy has been arrested for using a hammer to attempt to dash out the brains of the headteacher who oversaw fatal bullying and subsequent cover-up at his Shiga school, in a rare case of violent vigilante action.
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Now police as well as teachers have come under fire, this time for telling a boy who was beaten unconscious and suffered broken ribs and PTSD in as a result of bullying that “it’d be best to forget about” the attack, and for refusing to accept any crime had taken place.
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Yet another Japanese school has caused a bullying scandal, this time by insisting a bullying victim who was tortured with dozens of cigarette burns leave the school as the ghastly state of his arm might bother classmates.
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For the first time since records began, fewer Japanese schoolgirls are having sex, with statistics showing a precipitous drop in the rates of sexual activity amongst the nation’s young people of both genders – delighting creepy middle-aged virgin hunters but surely inducing despair amongst the nation’s sex-starved schoolboys.
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Police have finally announced plans to arrest the bullies who tormented their classmate into killing himself, whilst it has emerged that the ringleader’s mother was head of the school’s PTA and along with the teachers apparently did everything she could to pin the blame on the victim’s family.
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Police are looking for a female flasher who cruelly exposed herself to an innocent schoolboy, who may well now be scarred for life.
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The scandal surrounding the 13-year-old Shiga prefecture schoolboy who was only able to end his bullying by leaping from his apartment block continues to deepen, with teachers apparently still of the opinion that bullying had nothing to do with his death and that they are being unfairly scapegoated for not doing anything at all to help him.
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The latest bullying scandal to disgrace Japan’s school system has seen a boy narrowly escape lifelong paralysis after bullies took to forcing him to jump off buildings for their entertainment.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 11, 2012 21:07 JST
- Tags: Crime, Litigation, Murder, Police, Politics, Schoolboys, Shiga, Suicide, Teachers

Police have raided the school and city hall at the heart of the recent Shiga schoolboy suicide scandal, even as ever more disturbing details of the abuse he suffered and the lengths the school went to cover it all up continue to emerge.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 8, 2012 18:58 JST
- Tags: Crime, Litigation, Murder, Police, Politics, Schoolboys, Shiga, Suicide, Teachers

The case of a schoolboy driven to jump off a building after relentless bullying at the hands of his classmates – apparently with the active participation of his teachers – has outraged Japan, as much as have the insistent attempts of his teachers and even local police to deny the bullying had anything to do with his death.
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A mother has been jailed for taping herself having sex with her own teenage son, which she blames on “genetic sexual attraction,” after tracking him down on Facebook after years of separation.
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