{"id":8310,"date":"2011-01-07T07:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2011-01-07T07:40:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:40:41","slug":"afp-otemon-gakuin-univ-finally-apologizes-for-indian-student-suicide-in-2007-still-refuses-to-comment-if-racially-motivated-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=8310","title":{"rendered":"AFP: Otemon Gakuin Univ finally apologizes for Indian student suicide in 2007, still refuses to comment if racially-motivated bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Here’s another reason why people ought to think carefully before attending Japanese schools as a student of diversity, and it’s not just because funding to being them over without sufficient institutional support<\/a> afterwards is being cut<\/a>. \u00a0Bullying. \u00a0Here we have a Japanese university apologizing for the suicide of one of their ethnic students (raised in Japan with Japanese citizenship, no less). \u00a0It only took them three years. \u00a0And yet, like the recent Uemura Akiko suicide<\/a>, the possibility of it being racially-motivated is not dealt with by the authorities<\/a>. \u00a0Thanks for the apology, I guess, but this will hardly fix the problem for others. \u00a0Hence think carefully. \u00a0Arudou Debito<\/p>\n

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Japan university sorry for death of bullied Indian student<\/strong><\/p>\n

Agence France-Presse
\nTokyo, December 27, 2010
\nHindustan Times (27\/12\/2010), courtesy of ADH<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/Japan-university-sorry-for-death-of-bullied-Indian-student\/Article1-643398.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

A Japanese university on Monday apologised to the family of an Indian student who committed suicide in 2007, after leaving a note saying he would kill himself because of bullying at school.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The male student, then aged 20, at Otemon Gakuin University<\/a><\/em> in Osaka prefecture, jumped from a building three years ago, leaving a note saying: “The bullying I keep getting at school … Cannot take it any more.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The student, who was born to Indian parents and grew up in Japan, had earned <\/em><\/strong>Japanese citizenship, a university official said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Compounding the tragedy, his father, depressed about his son’s suicide, later jumped to his death from the same building, according to local reports.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“I would like to express my heartfelt apology to the bereaved family members,” said university dean Masayuki Ochiai at a press conference.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The university refused to comment on whether the abuse was racially motivated saying the specific nature of the bullying was not known.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Local media said he had been forced to take his trousers down in front of other people and that he had been nicknamed “bin Laden”.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

An independent third party panel was created in October to probe the incident after the Sankei newspaper and public broadcaster NHK reported the case.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Japan, a country where more than 30,000 people commit suicide every year, often sees school children kill themselves, with many leaving notes referring to harsh bullying by their peers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Here’s another reason why people ought to think carefully before attending Japanese schools as a student of diversity, and it’s not just because funding to being them over without sufficient institutional support afterwards is being cut. Bullying. Here we have a Japanese university apologizing for the suicide of one of their ethnic students (raised in Japan with Japanese citizenship, no less). It only took them three years. And yet, like the recent Uemura Akiko suicide, the possibility of it being racially-motivated is not dealt with by the authorities. Thanks for the apology, I guess, but this will hardly fix the problem for others. Hence think carefully.<\/p>\n

Hindustan Times: A Japanese university on Monday apologised to the family of an Indian student who committed suicide in 2007, after leaving a note saying he would kill himself because of bullying at school.<\/p>\n

The male student, then aged 20, at Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka prefecture, jumped from a building three years ago, leaving a note saying: “The bullying I keep getting at school … Cannot take it any more.”…<\/p>\n

The university refused to comment on whether the abuse was racially motivated saying the specific nature of the bullying was not known…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19,12,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-social-science","category-education","category-immigration-assimilation","category-ironies-hypocrisies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310","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=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}