
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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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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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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Record numbers of young Japanese are choosing to kill themselves rather than face the prospect of becoming dirty NEETs, according to police suicide statistics, with their numbers more than doubling in the last 4 years.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 28, 2012 06:00 JST
- Tags: Bicycles, Bizarre, Cars, Crime, Himeji, Internet, Police, Schoolboys, Suicide, YouTube

A man who uploaded a video of himself chasing a schoolboy on a bicycle in his car whilst threatening to run him off the road to YouTube has committed suicide, despite police and the boy declining to press charges, prompting furious speculation as to why he would kill himself when he remained anonymous and faced no punishment.
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Eyepatch moe anime Another has been attracting a great deal of attention for its foray into the realm of nightmarish guro school suicide action, with corpses and blood very nearly distracting viewers entirely from the all important theme of eyepatch schoolgirls…
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A gamer at an Internet cafe who died after a 23-hour marathon spree may have been sat dead at his PC amongst other patrons for as long as 9 hours.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 31, 2012 21:30 JST
- Tags: Crime, Hikikomori, Mental Illness, Murder, NEETs, Otaku, Suginami, Suicide, Tokyo

A hikikomori who carved up his brothers with a kitchen knife and then hanged himself after his twin brother dared to tell him to get a job has been highlighting the dangers of hikikomori interventions…
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