I’ll just give the link. One vice principal was fired for having an affair with a PTA mom. Another teacher at a different public school was fired for having an affair with a mother of one of the students at his school. The story doesn’t tell how they were found out but from the tone…
I don’t know if the writer agrees with me completely, but in this article, “Warm Reception May Not Await iPhone in Japan“, a Japan Times journalists voices a lot of the sentiments I wrote about in my blog entry titled “The iPhone in Japan?” last year. I’m still using my trusty Toshiba W52T pictured below…
The headline reads “Group with Google and others building cross-Pacific Broadband cable”. The important point though is who the “others are” in this case. One “other” is Bharti Airtel Limited, an Indian integrated telecom services provider. Others are various asian communications and mobile products companies… however one of the group which calls itself “Unity”… is…
Teacher threatens to force schoolgirl to strip for using mobile phone in class Not that a high school girl would be better, but the schoolgirl mentioned in the article is a junior high school student… in Japan that means from 7th grade to 9th grade. I doubt that I’ll be able to follow up on…
Male member of cheerleading squad at Meiji University (one of the highly rated private universities around Tokyo) among other members beaten by senior students… kills self. More sad news. Why do they have to beat people? I also think it should be easier for these kids to quit clubs. They get advised to stick it…
Another murder suicide. Since the 34 year old daughter was bed-ridden, this may be one of those put-us-out-of-our-miseries murder-suicides that happen in Japan. I really don’t mean to sound blase about it, but if you check this blog, you’ll see just how often this happens. Murder-suicide suspected in deaths of old man, daughter
A student killed himself in a bathroom at school. Everyone around him seems to think it was “bullying” or ijime in Japanese, but the school will never admit it. If it’s determined that the cause is ijime, the school, teachers, guilty students, parents of the guilty students, and all the levels of school boards up…
These guys are going to keep me busy posting! Karate DVD star teacher and a sixteen year old girl from his school. Article in English on Mainichi. Teacher Arrested for Having Sex with Student from his School Bonus: My guess is that the fact he’s been on “sick leave” since November means the school knew…