bullying

A teacher at an elementary school in western Tokyo has been suspended from work for verbally abusing her second-year pupils and using inappropriate language in her classroom,...

Teachers require far more than a simple pep talk if bullying, a scourge that afflicts schools across the country, is to be eradicated.

An independent committee investigating the suicide of a 13-year-old junior high school student in Otsu who was brutally bullied by classmates has released a report criticizing...

Japanese schools reported more than 140,000 instances of bullying from April to September, with 278 of them "serious," an emergency study has shown.

Business is booming for private investigators these days across the nation.

The education ministry on Sept. 5 announced its new policy to tackle bullying at school in response to the suicide of a student who was tormented repeatedly by his classmates.

NEYAGAWA, Osaka Prefecture--Police arrested three junior high school boys in connection with the bullying of a classmate, which involved setting the boy’s hair on fire and...

The Maritime Self-Defense Force has discovered a document about an MSDF member’s suicide in 2004 that it previously said had been “destroyed.”

Last October, a boy in his second year of junior high school in the city of Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, inexplicably took his life by jumping from his condominium complex.

An elementary school teacher I once interviewed about bullying likened her class to the ocean.

For his latest film, director Eisuke Naito shot "Sensei wo ryuzan saseru kai" (Let's make the teacher have a miscarriage club) because he wanted to bring out what was important ...