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Are Japanese High Schools really that bad?

Both law and social modern social morals hold that it is ok to defend yourself with appropriate force, but that doesn't mean stabbing the guy in the throat when he calls you a queer in the hallway.

selenta wrote:

Both law and social modern social morals hold that it is ok to defend yourself with appropriate force, but that doesn't mean stabbing the guy in the throat when he calls you a queer in the hallway.

Apparently you know very little about Japanese and East Asian society and culture.

Another factor is the law system (influenced by the moral values anyway). In one of Tsukasa Hojo's manga (IIRC Rash!, not included in the Encyc, yet...), victim's father, who tried to protect his daughter, was jailed for excessive self-defense and served longer than the assaulter because the latter was declared mentally ill. I don't have any hard numbers at hand, but "excessive self-defense" is a term I see very often in manga (police and judicial ones in particular) -- way, way more often than it should be. It may be unimaginable for most Americans, who can legally shoot a burglar breaking into one's own house.

There's also an interesting personal observation: the reactions of Japanese seeing an open (bleeding) wound. Of course I can't speak for general Japanese population, but from all those years I feel that Japanese seem to fear a small cut more than a large bruise. Likewise, they also see a paper cutter more threatening than a metal baseball bat. Let me know if I were mistaken.

Too bad there are not many English reports on Tsuyama massacre, the most notorious "result" of a chronic ijime victim.

Many ijime actions are considered criminal actions in US, yet teachers or other authorities would not bother to investigate in Japan. Tell me what you would do if you found your outdoor shoes (remember that Japanese schools have shoe boxes for indoor/outdoor shoes) heavily damaged, destroyed, or mysteriously disappeared when you are about to go home? Report to your homeroom teacher? Expect s/he tells you "think again if you had done something wrong to others then come back to me when you have a clue of who-dun-it."

That's ****ed up. No wonder there's so many hikkikomori out there in Japan.

There is such an immense pressure to not be a 'loser', and showing emotions or being different in any way is perceived as weakness. Once a person starts being teased others join right in because the best way to ensure your not next is to keep the pressure on someone else. That can be a common model anywhere, but in Japan it's difficult cultural background can make things spiral quickly, and carry pressures we don't really have equivalents of.

I notice that nobody paid attention to anything I said, but I'm new here so what the hay. as for somebody saying that the attackers hit the power lines, read my blog and it'll point out the general reasons. (a.k.a. stupidity)

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&Mytoken=F727B15B-ADA0-404C-927542C111295D6813796626

btw, isn't it odd that we're all westerners and nobody from japan has found this blog yet? is there a shortage of asians on ANN? seems like a dude in japan woulda stumbled onto us by now.....

btw, isn't it odd that we're all westerners and nobody from japan has found this blog yet? is there a shortage of asians on ANN? seems like a dude in japan woulda stumbled onto us by now.....

Isn't dormcat from Asia or just lives there?

Isn't dormcat from Asia or just lives there?

But heres a question. how come here when the victim usually goes crazy and go overkill rather than japan where they either kill themselves or shut out the world and become hikikomori?

Hasan later told police he had been trying to scratch Kiyan in the arm, "but it went deep in... cos I never used a knife before".