Japan Nation of Bullies: 57% Bullied, 27% Consider Suicide
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 22, 2012 17:46 JST
- Tags: Bullying, Crime, NicoNico Douga, Schoolboys, Schoolgirls, Statistics, Suicide, Teachers
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.
The survey, conducted online by NicoNico Douga, probably ranks as one of the largest ever taken of Japanese, with 1,072,014 participants.
Asking whether respondents had ever been bullied at school or college, they found 57.2% of those asked had, with women slightly more frequently victimised at 60.5% to men’s 54.1%.
Unsurprisingly for an all but universal social phenomenon, there was little difference between the areas with the highest reported incidence (Kanto and Kyoto with nearly 60% having been bullied) and those with the lowest (various backwater prefectures with only 50%).
Also unsurprisingly given the Japanese love of preserving “harmonious” relations, most bullying manifested itself indirectly – 32% experienced malign gossip and ostracism, 19.3% experienced insults and “verbal violence,” 15.6% had their possessions hidden or destroyed, and 12.6% were outright assaulted.
Gossip and exclusion were far more prevalent against women (38.3%) than men (25.%), with men instead finding themselves beaten up twice as much (17.6% vs 9.9%).
Most tragically given recent events and the noted preference of young Japanese for killing themselves rather than anyone else in response to such abuse, fully 27.4% of bullying victims had considered suicide, and a further 8.6% “couldn’t remember” whether they had done so.
54.3% of victims found they had nobody to turn to, with the rest favouring family (26.5%) or even teachers (10%).
Most unsurprisingly of all given the preference of Japanese schools for covering up any and all untoward events, over half of all those who did seek help failed to see an end to the bullying – 21.5% saw it continue unabated, 2.6% saw it worsen, 24.4% saw it lighten, and only 36.8% saw it abate completely. 14.7% reported an “other” outcome.
Few Japanese seemed to think the victim could do anything about their own situation, let alone best the bullies – in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, 26.9% thought teachers were the best way of ending bullying and 22.6% hoped a vanishingly rare police intercession would be the best way of tackling it.
9.7% believed a school counsellor might actually be of some use, 9.4% thought rules against bullying were the answer (perhaps overlooking the fact most schools already have them for whatever good they do), 4.9% saw inter-parental negotiations as best, and a charmingly optimistic 12.7% thought the key was the victim talking things out with their tormentor.
As to the bullies, nearly half of respondents were prepared to admit to bullying – 15.9% “had experience of bullying,” and 26.7% had committed acts “which might in reflection have been considered bullying by the victim.” However, 68.9% of these bullies had been bullied themselves as well.
Finally, of the nearly two thirds of Japanese who had witnessed bullying, 54% pretended to see nothing, 12.3% tried to help, 10.1% tattled, 5.6% asked friends and 2.4% actually joined in.
| 
Let It Die Trailer Unforgettably Fierce
Shinjuku Station Reveals “All Yu-Gi-Oh Cards Ever!”
KanColle Arcade Scores A Direct Hit
Bakuon!! Relentlessly Cute
Fuwary Gymnastics Girl Onahole Frighteningly Flexible
Star Fox Animated Short Takes Flight
Big Order “Big & Scary!”
Langrisser Re:Incarnation Tensei Really Retro
Monster Hunter Generations Monstrous As Ever
Live Action Naruto Stage-Play Filthier Than Ever
Ragnarok Mobile “Blasphemy Against Ragnarok Online”
Luxurious Shadow Wing Figure
Dragon Ball Super Unleashes Its Power
Kumamiko Bearly Legal
Top 10 Most Satisfying Winter 2016 Anime
The Dark Lord Is Feminized Demonically Hot
Hai-Furi Sailing Smoothly
Dragon Ball Fusions “Has Countless Possibilities!”
Code of Joker S OP “Is No Joke!”
Mayoiga A Chaotic Mess
Sheryl Nome Bunny Girl Cosplay by Mike Super Scandalous
Marvelous Madoka Mizugi Cosplay by Mashiro Yuki
Marie Rose Cosplay by Mike Undeniably Sexy
Tasha Tracer Cosplay Truly Tantalizing
Witch Craft Works Cosplay by Kagune Intensely Seductive
Kaine Cosplay by Yuricha Flawless
Kasumigaoka Utaha Cosplay Pretty Pure
Goddess of 2ch “Another Bathing Beauty!”
Tantalizing Hestia Cosplay Busts Out
Kashiwazaki Sena Cosplay Pure & Innocent
That's sad.
Many children are incredibly cruel given the chance.
Bullying people was very fun. It felt like I had gained a new toy.
I bet you loves most while playing with your ass
I felt that way when I kicked my bully's ass for the first time.
there was a bully in my neighborhood while growing up. one day everyone that was bullied by that guy got together and beat the crap out of him.
he was in the center crawled up on the ground while 5 or 7 of his victims danced on top of him while kicking him.
that was the last time i saw him in the neighborhood.
Humans are very cruel, children simply don't have societal restrictions placed upon them nearly as strongly.
That's life.
Goddamn grow a pair of balls and fight back, if your thinking of killing yourself might as well fight the bullies and take one of them down with you.
or simply show them how fragile their lives are.
you don't even need any tools, simply grab one's larynx and ask if he know what would happen if you tried to tear it out
Next thing you know, they've torn out your larynx.
Yeah, really great advice. Now let's get back to reality.
he sais try not do . . .
learn to understand...
Try to write full sentences.
I'm a different anon, hotstew, but standing up to bullies ALWAYS worked for me. I'd just threaten to kill/maim them, and every single one of them would walk away awkwardly laughing with a "yeah right, faggot." None of them ever bothered me again after that, though. Most people don't want to risk a real fight with someone who's very obviously angry.
Yeah sure, like they aren't gonna react to death menace and aren't gonna cry to their parents so that you get fucked by the PTA if you get back at them.
If things were as simple as fighting back or scarring the shit out of people, bullying wouldn't be that much of a problem to begin with.
But sometimes it is just that simple. Ofcourse, if it doesn't work, then it's only going toget worse. I still say try.
Some people believe it is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees. So their only answer is to fight back, even if it kills them socially or literally.
I prefer to extract my revenge through fucking their loved ones and publicly bragging about it after.
don't kid yourself, the only thing you fuck is a couch with a hole in it.
Bullying isn't exclusively physical. The whole point of bullying in the first place is to assert superiority over another. As such, many of these victims were also made to believe they can't do anything about it.
Though, Japan does need a grievous tragedy or three, particularly involving mass murders of bullies, for them to truly wake up and do something about it. Someone should go around massively poisoning bullies or stab and slash them all with a machete, just to remind the rest of the nation that once their victims snap, 'this could happen to you too'.
There's also the fact that if you're being bullied for being bigger (and therefore friendly to start with, like a big dog), once you do snap and bring The Fear to the bully, it might still not stop.
You'll just be known as the violent monkey. Perhaps get punished by the authorities. They'll hate you for the same attributes the bullies do, after all.
It's better they kill themselves than have school shootings like in the States.
Japanese kill themselves because they think they are not needed in society. Americans kill everybody cuz their train of thought always starts from thinking about themselves.
We need something in between like teaching these kids proper logical thinking and reasoning to look at the big picture.
Goalkeepers complaining the outfield players don't handle the ball.
I doubt they can simply "fight back". They're outnumbered and unlikely to have any allies. If anything happens most people are more likely to back up the bullies then the victim.
So fighting back might actually lead to the victim getting expelled from school for violent behavior or even being persecuted by the police for causing harm to another person.
Because who do you think the authorities are going to believe? The one person who hurt someone else or the 20-30 people?
Go for double-kill. Take the enemy down with you. You're dead so it won't matter.
Sadly that mentality is too "barbaric" for the Japanese to comprehend.
but it's ok to kill family and innocent people.
We live in a world of hypocrites. Any actions that contradicts what you're trying to achieve is obviously ok. :P
So that you become a monster to fight a monster.
Pretty sure our numbers with be close to 100% seeing how they included "malign gossip" and insult as bullying.
Everybody's been insulted once or twice, but I reckon in this case it's continuous and systematic with the ultimate goal of ostracism.
I've got that in my adult life.
But those were feminists, not schoolchildren.
dude all these guys are faggots seriously.. if you are being bullied just grow up some balls and beat the fuck out of them geez....
Very sad that people are not caring for others nowadays...
it's not even that. its the whole "by standard" effect. if you see a kid get bullied, there are 3 options:
help the victim (might work, but you may get bullied yourself)
become a bully (maybe not join in but pointing and laughing is just as bad)
or do nothing.
I take the first option because iam used to be the bullied one
i take the 3rd option, cause laughing at the misfortuned is wrong.
Add a 4th option Help the Victim but get arrested by the police
I'll take option n+1: chainsaws. Nobody is crazy enough to say "no" to the maniac wielding a roaring chainsaw.
Disclaimer:
Chainsaws are not practical weapons. Do not, under any circumstance try to use them to cut things they were not designed to cut (bones included).
The author of this comment does not
openlyendorse psychotic murder with improvised weaponry.I'm beginning to see more and more that society must be pretty damn hard out there.
The victims must not act out or seek help or they may disrupt the frail sense of harmony in Japanese society.
even if they do seek "help", the faculty would just pretend not to notice. wasn't there an article some where about the teachers trying to cover up a suicide because of bullying?
i don't know how i survived highschoole without killing any one ...
.
there is rape ( both sex )if u are hansome or pretty , humiliation and many more .
.
you just have to survive that ....
i don't know how i survived highschoole without killing any one ...
.
there is rape ( both sex )if u are hansome or pretty , humiliation and many more .
.
you just have to survive that ....
Their so called "harmony" is destroying them for good...
Like most systems in this world the japanese "harmony" thing is broken >.>
Harmony = out of sight out of mind.
as long as it's not happening to me, i'm in harmony.
Exactly. The world is meant to be balanced. If you try to lean to one side the other will balance it out. Japanese try too hard to be "good" so the "bad" side is fighting back full force.
Honestly you shouldn't go against nature.
Hardly unique to Japan. Humans just love shitting on each other.
No, this kind of IS unique to Japan. Not the amount of bullying, but the reactions to it. Here in Romania, for example, it is almost unheard of for an entire class to either bully someone, or to stand by and watch someone else bullying someone. My friends from France and Italy said the same thing about schools in their countries. While stuff like this does happen everywhere, Japan is the only one I've heard about that does absolutely NOTHING to stop bullying, even worse, blaming the victim most of the time.
For example, at my school, a sports teacher was sexually harassing a girl in my class (we only learned of this after the fact). One day, after classes (like 15 minutes after) the girl ran into that teacher, and he pushed her against the wall and grabbed her ass. And then our math teacher, a 60 year old man, saw it, and punched the sports teacher in the face, then called the police. Do you think anything like that could happen in Japan?
in japan, the math teacher would help the sport teacher and take the girl to a private room.
japan is a weak society compared to the rest of the world.