Tokyo Board of Education publishes names of schools using corporal punishment

My schools had corporal punishment. At middle school level I was given 56 strokes of the cane over about three years, in sets of 4 or 6. Never a problem for me and I probably deserved it every time. The system was never abused, as far as I know, certainly not towards me. Actually it would give you bragging rights and peer approval.

But "broken bones, bleeding, particularly vicious assault" in the article has me confused. This is not corporal punishment and would never have been allowed at school. Why are they mixing up the two in this article?

Surely abuse of authority and assault are the problem here, something deviant from well-regulated corporal punishment?

"Deviating from..." I meant to say above, not deviant! LOL

They are mixing terms up... corporal punishment is what nandakandamanda got... and what these kids are getting is physical abuse. there is quite a fat line between the two, but it is overlooked and unattended in this country. I am not saying it doesn't happen elsewhere... but that is besides the point.

I thought assault was a crime in this country. So wait, you can beat students and get away with it but if I were to push somebody I`d get detained? Quite dumb.

Students are often beaten in Japan. What about that case last year when the school coach slapped the club captain in the face 40 times and the boy committed suicide? That coach almost certainly considered that corporal punishment.

I'll wager there are a lot more cases than just these ones reported in Tokyo schools.

I'll wager there are a lot more cases than just these ones reported in Tokyo schools.

Without a doubt! Just because it isn't reported does not mean it doesn't happen. There is much that goes on in this country that never sees the light of day and thus keeps the people in blissful ignorance.

Anybody who would lay a hand on my child would get a hand laid on them. Fortunately I have no children but seriously, no physical harm to be done to children, it serves no value-added benefits.

A former President of the Republic of S'pore wrote in his autobiography that he was caned by his teacher and the cane works wonders as he was awakened from his slumber. He studied hard and went on to become a Journalist , Ambassador and later President of Republic of Singapore. I am all for corporal punishment as a form of disciplining some errant and recalcitrant pupils, but not to the extent of causing grievous hurt. Proper standard operating procedures must be established by the relevant authorities and to be complied with strictly, so as not to be abused.

Any teacher, coach or whomever using corporal or bullying punishment with kids should end up in jail! Period!

And the same for the ones doing it with women, employees, elderly, ...

You can certainly send a message fast enough by simply firing the teachers involved or even sending them to the prosecutor's office. The rest will learn. You don't get anywhere by just "looking".

Reading this article I am feeling like reading a dusty old 1950th newspaper in Europe.

This should be Abe's first priority to fix it for good. How can you expect good leaders if beaten when young?

Thus this is a 2 generations job. Start right now!

Mrs. Des told me that when she was a JHS student in the 90s she was whacked on the head by a sadistic teacher for the crime of being mistaken for another girl talking in class - so hard she was dazed and fell down! She was too ashamed to tell her parents - which I suspect is the case with most kids being assaulted by the countless failed human beings who masquerade as teachers /sports coaches here.

If a teacher - or ANY adult - laid a finger on my daughter, I can promise that individual would be consuming all their food through a wired jaw for a couple months.

That's a lot of schools and a lot of teachers/coaches. By what factor should we multiply these numbers to get the actual figure?

Broken bones? Internal bleeding? (Furrows brow)

Naming and shaming is good though.

Anyone got the list?

I would have thought that Tokyo would have more schools than that.

Take away their teacher´s license and throw them into jail. Child abusers should by no means be tolerated.

I´ve never been hit by any teacher or coach, though I have been yelled at and scolded. I think that is the way to go. Stop this madness of hitting young children.

My secondary school used so-called "corporal punishment" on a daily basis. Kids were sometimes just caned randomly by religious numbers after Assembley by a nutty priest. There were 4 gospels, so 4 boys would be caned. There were 9 choirs of angels, 9 boys would be caned. Holy Trinity was 3, so 3 boys would be caned. If Jesus and the Wilderness got a mention, best policy was to run! The formal punishment of a child for certain serious offences is corporal punishment. What went down at my school was often abuse, and these cases are also abuse. They are violent attacks on children by out-of-control adults, and a very strict message needs to be sent to anyone who thinks they can break children's bones or cause them internal bleeding.

Don't children carry a 50 cm bamboo made ruler to hit back horrible teachers now? Well, rulers are made differently now than 1940's era. Children are too polite to face such corporal punishment now.