Junior high school student arrested after bullying incident in Kyushu

The 14 yr old can look forward to a bright future as a prison guard in Japan.

How does a kid think of things like this? Is this sort of sadism taught or encouraged?

Suspended sentence, and kids to wreak their revenge very soon.

@telecasterplayer: so, you thought manga has no role in the education of the young generation in Japan? The answer to your second question is: yes, and definitely yes!

Just my opinion...

Before sending these chaps off to juvenile court, the cops should let this youngsters spend the evening in the cells with some real hard types. This would probably fix their attitude.

At the same time the parents of the child who was bullied should sue anybody and everybody even slightly involved in this sorry affair, the message being "Don't fxck with our kids."

Soldave... that was hysterical. F-MeLOL. Considering this incident took place on Dec 10, I don't doubt revenge hasn't been sought already.

Seriously though, what kind of bully uses the old, "I didn't like his attitude" excuse for being a dick. There must be something lost in translation there. "He was far too sharp and acute for my liking, so I made him drink from the fire hose." Jeez.

what a joke society.

Sincerely hope both of these kids learn a lesson from this. That bullying is totally and completely unacceptable, and that it should never be tolerated. I hope we hear of more cases like this. Where victims come forward and force the teachers and the police to do the right thing.

It is a difficult situation. If they don't like his attitude and he will not change without some force, what can they do? Toilet water drinking is not a good solution, but what can they do?

It is a difficult situation. If they don't like his attitude and he will not change without some force, what can they do? Toilet water drinking is not a good solution, but what can they do?

really it is not what that which you saying did them is it for ?

They did not like his attitude?

He wasn't a team player. If anyone on here was at a boarding school in an Anglo-Saxon country, they will realise that early teen cruelty is not an exclusively Japanese preserve.

Bullying, people in a position of power abusing those below them, or at least the fear of it, seems like it would be a part of everyday life for people in Japan to me.

Situations like this where something really scarring is done to someone should be met with a lot of condemnation from people, I'm sure there are some people at the school that are really being punished though, but it doesn't look like it's the kids, unfortunately.

Unfortunately this sort of bullying manifests itself later on in life in the work place where the ones in power bully their underlings, be it in a more subtle way. Making an example of the bullies is probably the best approach. Should bring back the stocks, a very effective way to curtail this kind of behavior.

To Wakarimasen Yeah, product of a really tough old style boarding school here, rugby and religion in that order. Certainly we had a bit of up-down pressure at school (regarding dress standards, academics, chores, etc), however, among my classmates there was not any bullying.

The big mantra at my school was school "Don't jack on your mates" (Do not leave your friends to carry the can). On the other hand, if this sort of bullying (as above) had happened at my school, the 2 perpetrators would have been fixed up by senior classmen (prefects, early morning hours, innane and repetitive punishment, etc.) and they would have been officially shunned, that is, become non-people.

at least the kid is arrested it is a step forward

Please bullying happens to most people and a fair share of people here probably did something. From popping bras or spreading malicious gossip, excluding someone from your play group kids are mean. Very few I've met are paragons of goodness. Most like adults are just followers. It is up the officials to catch and give the right punishment. Use to be absence from school, a mark on the record, and community or after school service.

To Timorborder, not every boarding school was like yours. The one I went to in my Senior year was more like Wakarimasen's descript, and my friends who come from different boarding schools are close to the same. Lord of the flies even children set up their own little societies with rules and punishments.

What they need to do with bullies is to automatically give them a failing grade for the semester, with repeat offenders expelled. Counseling does little, and arrests are moot, because as a minor, the bully really has nothing to fear. By taking away their education, they soon realize that they will suffer a real loss for their poor and violent attitudes.

What is going on in schools? Just before I was reading about female students and now tads are doing the sort of scenarios. What are Principals and teachers doing in schools. Now even schools are becoming human disasters.

Bullying in Japan is just too sadistic. When I was young the worst I could expect from a bully was a fist in the face, or just be beat up, but never life-threatening...

Japanese bullies cut body parts, rape, violate, and in some cases almost kill others using other twisted methods as shown above... Something is definitely missing in the respect for other living beings right to existance there.

Parents aren't doing their job beyond the roof over the kids head and food in their mouths. They apparantly are missing disciplinary actions such as grounding their kids or taking away their privileges when they do something wrong, or even better yet, teaching their kids the old golden rule. Somehow they think the schools are going to do that for them when the schools are only meant to teach readin'~writin'~and 'rithmatic.

Until the parents start taking heed about the fact they need to do MORE for their kids ethical influence, this sorry sick game will never end.