An education ministry survey released Tuesday found that nearly 200 children evacuated from Fukushima Prefecture following the 2011 nuclear disaster were bullied, with some being abused verbally with derogatory terms linked to the calamity.
The first nationwide survey on bullying suffered by elementary, junior high and high school students evacuated from Fukushima found 129 cases of bullying in fiscal 2016 and 70 more cases in and before fiscal 2015.
Interviews were conducted between December last year and March, with responses coming from around 11,800 evacuees. The survey was prompted by the bullying of a boy in Yokohama who evacuated from Fukushima in 2011.
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