Smoking Rooms Provided in High School Dorm

Tsugeno High School in Aichi Prefecture is currently in the public eye because of reports that the school, which is designed to give a second chance to dropouts, provided students with “smoking” rooms. The school claims the rooms are part of an anti-smoking program the school is doing. The rooms are equipt with ashtrays, however teachers…

Japanese Baseball: Kiyohara Gets Mad About A Change Up

Japanese Professional Baseball star Kiyohara of the Orix complained about being thrown a change-up by closer Micheal Nakamura of Nippon Ham.Kiyohara argued that Micheal, as the Japanese-Australian player is generally referred to in Japan, should have thrown a fastball instead of striking him out with a low-outside change-up. WITH VIDEO.

Thrown Keys Stop Trains and Affect 8600 Communters

Sometimes things happen in movies and everyone in the audience just thinks, “No one would ever do anything like that in real life.” I think this is one of those things that’s hard to believe anyone would ever really do… So here’s the scene… It’s about 7:20am on August 6th in Saga Prefecture. Husband walks…

High School Basketball Coach Sentenced to 11 Years For Sexual Assault on Students

Takaaki Obara, a 57 year old high school basketball coach was convicted of raping a member of the girls’ basketball at a hotel when the club was away for a tournament. He was also convicted of punching members of the team in another hotel. The english story on Mainichi points out that he was “highly…

Bad Teacher Forces Girl to Kneel on the Floor and Apologize for Forgetting Notebook

A 53 year old teacher forced a girl to kneel on the floor and apologize in front of the class for having forgotten to give a notebook to one of her classmates. The teacher had asked the girl to deliver a notebook to a classmate who’d had to leave school early one day. This is…