{"id":15813,"date":"2019-11-02T09:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15813"},"modified":"2019-11-17T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T19:15:00","slug":"senaiho-update-3-civil-suit-to-be-launched-over-school-hair-police-forced-haircut-bullying-of-student-in-yamanashi-jhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=15813","title":{"rendered":"Senaiho Update 3: Civil suit to be launched over school “Hair Police” forced-haircut bullying of student in Yamanashi JHS (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0What follows is an update to the Senaiho Case of Junior High School bullying in Yamanashi, where a student three years ago had her hair forcibly cut by her\u00a0Japanese school’s “hair police”<\/a> (i.e., her teachers) against her will, resulting in trauma to the point where she could no longer attend. \u00a0Debito.org has been covering this case for years now, and you can see previous entries here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and\u00a0here<\/a>. (And compare it with this<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The news is that the family, working through “proper channels” to no effect (in fact, the opposite — officialdom harassed the victims further<\/a>), are officially taking the bullies to court. \u00a0Here’s Update 3. \u00a0Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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From: Senaiho<\/strong>
\nSubject: Senaiho Update 3<\/strong>
\nDate: November 1, 2019<\/strong>
\nTo: Debito Arudou <debito@debito.org><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hello Debito,<\/strong>
\nSince the Yamanashi Nichi Nichi published an article today (below) re the suit we will be shortly filing, I will go ahead and send this to you for your blog.<\/em><\/p>\n

I will try to include some information not in the article.<\/em><\/p>\n

The update:<\/em><\/p>\n

Since my last update stating that the prosecutors office found insufficient evidence to proceed with charges, we have been working on the basis of filing a civil suit against the city of Yamanashi seeking a monetary amount of 7 million yen and a suit against the guardians of the perpetrators of the bullying seeking 5 million yen. This suit will be filed on the 8th of this month. This will be followed by a press conference at the press club office in the prefecture building.<\/em><\/p>\n

The basis of the suit will be that our daughter was bullied and as a result of this, the school teachers cut her hair without her consent. This resulted in her being traumatised to the point of not being able to attend the last two years of her middle school education and requiring professional counseling, along with medical treatment for insomnia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Since the original incident in ’16, many of the people involved have retired, transfered, divorced, and even been imprisoned, such as the former mayor of Yamanashi (for unrelated crimes). This however does not decrease the liability of the city or the perpetrators. It does make it difficult for those in charge though who have to catch up, but that is their problem.<\/em><\/p>\n

This will be a long process though, probably two years at least and there is no guarantee we will come through as we wish, but if our daughter understands that what happened to her is not her fault, it will be a victory.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you all here at debito.org for your continued support.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sincerely, Senaiho<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Courtesy Yamanashi Nichi Nichi Shinbun,\u00a011\/2\/19 edition, p. 26.)<\/em><\/p>\n

UPDATE NOVEMBER 14, 2019, FROM SENAIHO (PDF FORMAT, CLICK TO DOWNLOAD)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SenaihoAsahi111419<\/a><\/p>\n

Hello Debito,<\/strong><\/div>\n
I am including an article that appeared in today s Asahi Shinbun. It s not my intention to put up every article that concerns us, but I am sending you this one because I think it is important in that it features an example of how people in officialdom abuse their power over those they view as their inferiors. I mentioned this aspect in a recent post.<\/em><\/div>\n
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My translation:<\/em><\/div>\n
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Yamanashi School Hair Cutting Incident\/Student Absence<\/strong><\/div>\n
Subtitle: A household who was a former member on the Yamanashi City Board of Education bashes the guardians by SNS of the student who s hair was cut by school officials.<\/strong><\/div>\n
Asahi Shinbun, November 14, 2019<\/strong><\/div>\n
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In the spring of 2016, a second year student who s hair was cut by the school officials, was bashed by the household of a former member of the Yamanashi City B. of E. by way of Social Media (Facebook). The posted comment has since been deleted, but the Yamanashi B. of E. this month has received a copy of the deleted post from a concerned citizen of the local community, and have confirmed its contents. Mr. Kagami, the current head of the Yamanashi B.of E. said; “We are examining whether a leak of private information occurred and studying our response to this.” On 11\/4 of this month, the guardians of the victim filed a 7.7 million yen lawsuit against the city of Yamanashi at the Kofu Municipal Court. The suit claims that the school officials, the B. of E. and the city are responsible, along with the perpetrators of the bullying of the victim, which resulted in the damages. As a result of the incident, the former B. of E. member manipulated information received obtained from their position on the Board, and used it to further bash the guardians of the student victim. The family member of SNS site claimed they heard the information from the former B. of E. family member “The parents of the victim gave permission to the teachers to cut her hair” they said in the posting on the SNS. The guardians of the student claim they did NOT give the school officials permission to cut their child s hair. The B. of E. without any investigation, accepted the word of the former B. of E. member at face value. The household of the former B. of E. member responded; “That was posted one year ago and has been deleted” they said. The household admits that the claim may have been based on speculation based on gossip. “It s possible we are mistaken” they said, also that it was “inappropriate to have done this.”<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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All The Best\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
Senaiho<\/strong><\/div>\n

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This is an update to the Senaiho Case of Junior High School bullying in Yamanashi, where a student three years ago had her hair forcibly cut by her\u00a0Japanese school’s “hair police” (i.e., her teachers) against her will, resulting in trauma to the point where she could no longer attend. \u00a0Debito.org has been covering this case for years (previous entries here, here, and\u00a0here). The news is that the family, working through “proper channels” to no effect (in fact, the opposite — officialdom harassed the victims further), are officially taking the bullies to court:<\/p>\n

Senaiho: Since my last update stating that the prosecutors office found insufficient evidence to proceed with charges, we have been working on the basis of filing a civil suit against the city of Yamanashi seeking a monetary amount of 7 million yen and a suit against the guardians of the perpetrators of the bullying seeking 5 million yen. This suit will be filed on the 8th of this month. This will be followed by a press conference at the press club office in the prefecture building. The basis of the suit will be that our daughter was bullied and as a result of this, the school teachers cut her hair without her consent. This resulted in her being traumatised to the point of not being able to attend the last two years of her middle school education and requiring professional counseling, along with medical treatment for insomnia.<\/p>\n

Since the original incident in ’16, many of the people involved have retired, transfered, divorced, and even been imprisoned, such as the former mayor of Yamanashi (for unrelated crimes). This however does not decrease the liability of the city or the perpetrators. It does make it difficult for those in charge though who have to catch up, but that is their problem. This will be a long process though, probably two years at least and there is no guarantee we will come through as we wish, but if our daughter understands that what happened to her is not her fault, it will be a victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,28,19,5,12,37,4,15,60,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinprick-protests","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-education","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-injustice","category-japanese-government","category-lawsuits","category-nj-voices-ignored","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15813"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15840,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions\/15840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}