Karen Manuel Kobayashi comments

I think one big proble of kids in Japan is COMMUNICATION... Communication with parents, with friends, with teachers... Like real open communication. Thing is Japanese usually hold back and never talk how they feel...

Every year such incident happens in Japan. I can`t believe parents who can risk kids just for their own satisfaction!

Olympic is time SPORTS to show SPORTMANSHIP and only time to be fighting in a nice way and not to boil more political problems. What got into the mind of this guy?

Yeah cause I can see these bullying everyday in the school... But these scandal must serve as eye openner. They must really start being a bit harder to punishing

very true conbread1

Yeah, parents are so URUSAI when its all about their kids. They do complain a lot and some would even say when they receive complaints that their kids are not like that. So yeah right, monster parents are to blame but only MEXT can do action now to change their system. A very young life was taken and oneS FUTURE WAS RUINED because of NOT WANTING TO RUIN BULLYS LIFE! LEt those students apologize in public too to set as an example. Stop SPARING AND PROTECTING! LEt them taste their own dose of medicine (BITTER MEDICINE)! I hope too that this tragic death of a very young boy turned scandal will open people`s eyes about involving themselves. Stop being cold and start caring people of Japan!

I think its about time Japan change their system of how they treat kids who did really disturbing acts. They are so soft! They don`t kick student out from school and do heavy punishments and one reason why is such act MIGHT RESULT BULLYING TO THE KIDS WHO ARE PUNISHED> But I think them being so soft results to more bullying! I am an ALT and this morning the HRT in one of my class was crying over kids who are so hard to hold and are so obviously BULLY! wake-up MEXT!!! Are you waiting for more deaths before you act???? Punish them!

unfortunate truth is Japan have high percentage of CHILDRENSDEATH due to negligence. I have 2 kids 4 and 1 1/2 and even they do play in one of the rooms in our house and I dont stay with them I do check them every now and then.

its not suicide... this is not the first time such thing happened here in Japan. Just last January 2 sisters frozen to death because their gas and electricity were cut and cannot use heater. Likewise they asked help from the city office for food. Same as this family, they went to ask for assistance from theer city office and what I cant accept is, why they were not being help. Very poor and homeless people in Japan are so few and Japan is a very rich country. Tehy can pave their roads until inside mountains where few cars runhow come they can put a strong support to poor and homeless?