
A man has been arrested for shaking hands after a high schooler accepted his offer of a handshake on a train.
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The Chinese government has expressed its outrage at a Japanese town’s efforts to get its collection of kamikaze pilot memorabilia granted UNESCO recognition.
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A teacher who hit one of his pupils 53 times in the face for eating sweets on a school trip, injuring his neck and requiring weeks of recovery, has had his pay reduced 10% for 6 months.
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Japanese officials and nationalists alike are aghast at the plans of a landholder to sell his island to the Chinese, their concerns made all the more acute by the fact it contains a partially complete military base.
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A teacher charged with a slew of child prostitution offences has managed to avoid jail, the judge apparently being impressed by his remorseful character and a generous out of court settlement he paid.
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A middle school teacher who beat four of his students found himself promoted to vice-principal only the month after he was forced to apologise.
At his new school, he then so traumatised a girl with his harsh words to her that she refused to attend school and began harming herself.
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A (now former) policeman who committed indecent acts upon no less than two schoolgirls, in one case actually in his very police car and abandoning his post guarding a nuclear power plant to do so, has been dismissed and found guilty of violating the very child protection laws he was sworn to uphold.
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A man who attempted to raep a schoolgirl by drugging a cake, and then giving it to her in order to incapacitate her, has been handed a substantial prison term for his culinary felony.
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