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BULLYING

Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 23, 2013
Why are so many young men becoming Internet trolls?
Two thousand, three hundred and ninety-three years ago, in 380 B.C., Plato wrote the myth of the Ring of Gyges, in which the shepherd, Gyges, discovers a ring that makes him invisible at will. Gyges promptly uses the protection this offers to infiltrate the royal household, seduce the queen, assassinate...
EDITORIALS
Jul 3, 2013
Taking a stand against bullying
It is deplorable that the opposition DPJ blew a chance to pass a power industry reform bill because it was too busy playing politics against the prime minister.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2013
Diet passes anti-bullying legislation
The Diet enacts a law aimed at preventing bullying in elementary, junior high and high schools by basically compelling the institutions to report serious cases.
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2013
Tokyo ward to introduce system to report bullying
Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward will soon set up websites for all of its 15 public junior high schools to receive reports and inquiries from students about bullying, officials said Monday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LABOR PAINS
Apr 16, 2013
Employers' 'box them in, drive them out' tactics fail legal test
Surely few employees would jump out of bed every morning, itching to start work at the 'Department for Driving Them Out'? But what is an oidashi-beya? And what scary entities are to be driven out?
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Apr 2, 2013
Using 'Richard Parker' pseudonym to excuse terror, fear is most apt
Whoever wrote "Right or wrong, corporal punishment can produce winners" (The Foreign Element, March 12) picked an excellent pseudonym.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 26, 2013
If corporal punishment works, where are all the champions?
In the final scenes of Aaron Sorkin's powerfully written film "A Few Good Men," one of the U.S. Marines on trial for the murder of a fellow serviceman is bewildered as to why he has not been cleared of all charges after his commanding officer admits ordering the attack. "We did nothing wrong," cries...
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Mar 26, 2013
Consensus: Corporal punishment in sports misguided, demoralizing, backward
The following are some readers' responses to the March 12 Foreign Element column by Richard Parker headlined "Right or wrong, corporal punishment can produce winners." See many more in the comment section below the original article.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 12, 2013
Right or wrong, corporal punishment can produce winners
It was shaping up to be just another day at practice. The high school's head basketball coach, who was young and still trying to establish himself, was picking on the captain of the once-famous girls' team, jumping on her every mistake and yelling at the top of his voice to make his point.
EDITORIALS
Mar 11, 2013
Problematic proposals on bullying
A government panel's recommendation that 'morals' become a regular school subject is problematic because of the ideological threat to students.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 3, 2013
Solution to bullying lies in 'resetting' culprits
"The biggest problem in Japanese education is the idea that you can eliminate bullying by reforming the system."
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2013
More suspensions of bullies sought
A government panel on education proposes that schools enforce suspensions of bullies more strictly.
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Feb 26, 2013
I've seen haras . . . haras that you've seen: when 'harassment' goes wild
In response to the article "Blame it on the hara: harassment vocabulary makes us all victims" (The Foreign Element, Jan. 28), we invited readers to come up with their own ideas for new types of "harassment." As you can see, one JT writer got a bit carried away.
WORLD / Society
Feb 23, 2013
25% of U.S. teens harassed online by partner
In another mark of the increasingly digital life of teenagers, more than 25 percent of those who dated said their love interests threatened or harassed them online or using texts, according to a new study that is touted as the most comprehensive look at the phenomenon.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 5, 2013
Bullying caused boy's suicide, Otsu admits
Officials in the city of Otsu admit there was a causal link between a student's suicide and the bullying he was subjected to by his classmates.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 1, 2013
Independent panel links Shiga student's 2011 suicide to bullying
An independent panel looking into a 13-year-old municipal junior high schoolboy's suicide in October 2011 in Shiga Prefecture concluded Thursday that bullying by his classmates was the "direct cause" of his death.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jan 28, 2013
Tokyo: Do you think teachers should be allowed to dish out corporal punishment?
'I don't see any benefit in corporal punishment, whether at the hands of teachers or parents.'
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jan 28, 2013
Blame it on the hara: harassment vocabulary makes us all victims
Japan has a new hara. No, the nice couple down the hall didn't just have a baby; according to recent news, yet another form of harassment is supposedly becoming a social problem.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 28, 2013
Antibullying bill targets Web posts, punishment by teachers
Rising pressure to reduce bullying prompts the Liberal Democratic Party to draft a bill that would make corporal punishment by teachers a form of the violent phenomenon.
Reader Mail
Oct 16, 2011
Time to rebuild from Tepco failure
"If somebody tells us to stop using the cost-plus pricing formula, we would say, 'We are not in a philanthropic business,'" said a power-industry person in the Oct. 10 article "Tepco guarding its ground."

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