{"id":11117,"date":"2013-03-18T13:59:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11117"},"modified":"2013-03-18T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T01:17:16","slug":"interesting-cases-naturalized-japanese-sues-city-councilor-fiance-who-jilted-her-for-korean-ethnicity-pakistani-parents-file-criminal-complaint-for-injurious-school-bullying-hatoyama-yukio-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=11117","title":{"rendered":"Interesting cases: naturalized Japanese sues city councilor fiance who jilted her for Korean ethnicity, Pakistani parents file criminal complaint for injurious school bullying, Hatoyama Yukio officially called “traitor” for not toeing official party line on Senkaku\/Nanjing issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. Here are a couple of interesting cases that have fallen through the cracks recently, what with all the higher-level geopolitical flurry and consequent hate speech garnering so much attention. \u00a0With not much to link them thematically except that these are complaints made into public disputes, let me combine them into one blog post and let them stand for themselves as bellwethers of the times.<\/p>\n

First up, we have a criminal complaint filed with the police for classroom bullying resulting in serious injury due to his Pakistani ethnicity. \u00a0This is one of a long line of cases of ethnic bullying in Japan, once again with insufficient intervention by authorities, and we’re lucky this time it hasn’t resulted yet in PTSD or a suicide. \u00a0Like it has in these cases here\u00a0with an ethnic Chinese schoolgirl<\/a>,\u00a0with an Indian student in 2007<\/a>, or a Filipina-Japanese student in 2010<\/a>\u00a0(in the last case\u00a0NHK neglected to mention ethnicity as an issue). \u00a0Of course, even here the Mainichi declines to give the name of the school involved. \u00a0Whatever happened to perennial promises of a “major bullying study<\/a>” at the ministerial level a couple of years ago to prevent things like this? \u00a0Or of grassroots NGO actions way back when<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Pakistani student’s parents file complaint against classmates over bullying<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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TAKAMATSU — The parents of a 13-year-old Pakistani junior high school student here have filed a criminal complaint with police, accusing their son’s classmates of bullying and injuring him.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A male Pakistani student at a public junior high school in a town in Kagawa Prefecture was bullied and seriously injured by his classmates, his parents alleged in a complaint filed on Feb. 18 with prefectural police.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The parents requested on the same day that the town’s board of education investigate the case and take measures to prevent a recurrence as they claim the student has been racially abused by four of his classmates since last spring. However, the education board denies bullying took place at the school.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the parents who held a news conference, the student was verbally bullied about the color of his skin by four of his classmates ever since he entered school last April. The parents claim that the students would make racist comments that their son’s skin was “dirty” and that they told him to “go back to his home country.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The student was also physically bullied repeatedly by his classmates. Last November, one of the four classmates tripped him over when he was running in the hallway, severely injuring his legs and face. Since that incident, the student reportedly has to use crutches to walk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The student’s 41-year-old father said, “We asked the homeroom teacher and vice principle multiple times to improve the situation but they failed to take any action.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

February 19, 2013 (Mainichi Japan)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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