A bad elementary school teacher was arrested for trying to take a photo up the skirt of a high school girl.
Does this kind of thing happen in the US? If one of my friends did something like this I’d be mostly grossed out and completely finished with the friendship.
Don’t make me count this! It happens way too much! And why do teachers do this? You’d think they’d be tired of the uniforms and students.
If you hear these stories separately, your heart goes out to those involved. When you put the pieces together, you have to worry if there aren’t some very deep seated problems in the management of the Japanese Olympic Women’s Skeleton team. The latest news is that Nozomi Komuro was disqualified for not having the proper…
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…
In March 2006, a teacher in Yamanashi Prefecture was murdered by a student who had graduated from the school 24 years prior. Fifty-nine year old Yuji Iwama was found dead of multiple stab wounds. The perpetrator’s name was not released because he was determined to be mentally ill. The man who suffered from persecution complex…
Ako Kawada, a well known announcer in Japan committed suicide in her car on the 26th by inhaling the fumes from burning charcoal. Lately she had apparently been writing some negative things on her official blog showing signs of depression. She was found in the morning in her white Mercedes-Benz. What will it take for…
Because Aya Sameshima is a popular search term for this blog, I decided to follow up on her story. After the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, Aya Sameshima and her Tepco Mareeze teammates were sent to new homes. Sameshima ended up in the United States playing for the Boston Breakers after Japan’s Women’s World Cup…
Saki Kumagai, the Japan defender most World Cup fans will remember as being just a moment late on Alex Morgan’s goal in the World Cup final game this year, has been warned by the Japan Football Association. All of her pending media appearances have also been put on hold. The player attended a celebration party…