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There has been no change even after the law to promote efforts to prevent school bullying was established in 2013 after my son's suicide.

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The father of a 13-year-old boy who killed himself in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, in 2011 after being bullied at junior high school, calling for a law revision to eradicate school bullying. Over the past decade, he has engaged in activities in many places to support families of people who committed suicide due to bullying.

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Sadly, very tolerated in Japanese schools when it should be a crime and perpetrators treated as such!

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How much more suffering is necessary before real change occurs?

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Doesn't matter how many laws are passed. Kids are mean and bullying will always be present. One thing people could do, is teaching kids and adults on how to deal with bullies and peer pressure.

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One thing people could do, is teaching kids and adults on how to deal with bullies and peer pressure.

And additional, teachers should finally stop to deny that bullying exists at schools.

Many many teachers are looking in another direction as soon as they see bullying is happening.

Those kind of teachers have to be also taken into reponsibility.

Turning away if you see bullying is the same as you do the bullying by yourself!

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Did he actually think there would be? Heck... they won't even do anything about the volleyball and basketball coaches who literally beat their students, or the teachers who still force kids to do human pyramids at school sports festivals, because the teams do well, or they think the kids need "gaman culture" -- until some die, are paralyzed, or what have you. Then it's a shocker! Nothing will get done when you do nothing but leave it to others, who do nothing but leave it to someone else.

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Parents and teachers could do A LOT more to intervene. Let's also teach kids some confidence!

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Personally, I also cannot understand how these problems are handled, if they are handled at all. Decades ago , when I still was at school , there were only a few bigger occurrences. And they were all gripped by the roots immediately. One severe warning and in case of repetition, the bullying students had to leave the schools and were collected in special schools for difficult behavior kids. And at senior high schools there wasn’t even one free shot, because everyone warned at entry time, so the bullies there were just taken out on first occurrence and sent into normal young workforce , not anymore into continuing high school or university career. Of course I don’t mean the more little things, a small hidden punch here, a chewing gum into the book or spilled drink there and such. Those were ‘of course’ usual and widespread and mostly tolerated if not too overdone.

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There is no such thing as bully free school life. Every school has this problem and every child experiences it. You got to bring up your kids right, that is the only way!

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About 100 years ago when I was Junior High School student, I was getting bullied. I told my Dad and he took me along to a boxing club which did me no end of good for my confidence and fighting ability. Result= no more bullying. I advocate some form of martial art for all bullied students. Will stop it.

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teach your kids how to defend themselves... this is the only way... also, bullies tend to attack the weak so important to raise confident children versus a kid whose head is always down...

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Often the police do nothing until it is too late. Bullying, stalking, animal abuse, the police do nothing. "Do you have evidence?" They won't do anything without evidence.

Wait until you can get a video of your kid being bullied. In most countries getting evidence is the police's job, not here.

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