Japanese Teacher Hates Americans!

[Shibuya Me]

In the Japan Times I read this which makes me feel sad for the state of many Japanese mindsets. I realize that not all Japanese people feel that foreigners are trash...however it makes one ponder about the true feelings of Japanese people....

According to the suit, between May and June this year the 46-year-old male teacher repeatedly told the boy, whose great-grandfather is an American, to commit suicide, saying such things as: "Your blood is filthy, jump from your condominium and die," and "Haven't you died yet? Make sure you do today." The teacher has since been suspended from work.

Furthermore, the teacher injured him on several occasions by making the boy choose from five forms of punishment, when it came time to go home. In one such punishment, "Pinnochio," the boy's nose was pinched so hard that it bled, the lawsuit said.

Lawyers for the boy, who suffers convulsions and nausea and has said he wants to "change his blood" and that he does not deserve to live, made an appeal to colleagues nationwide asking for support.

Welp! I weep for Japan.

[jim katta]

I weep for Japan.

why not just leave and live someplace you like better?

[Shibuya Me]

This is not about me....

It is however about Japanese mindsets about foreigners.

Leaving Japan would not solve Japans many problems.

So, I am not sure what your comment suggests?

Leave Japan so Japan gets a grip?

[Taro Toporific]

[b]In the Japan Times ...
...male teacher repeatedly told the boy, whose great-grandfather is an American, to commit suicide....

There has to be a rest-of-story to the ijime case. How weird did this kid look if his great-grandfather was American???
Great-grandson of...?

[Shibuya Me]

Taro Toporific,

How do you find all these images so fast and how the heck do you post them?

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

This is not about me....

It is however about Japanese mindsets about foreigners.

Leaving Japan would not solve Japans many problems.

So, I am not sure what your comment suggests?

Leave Japan so Japan gets a grip?

Are you Trolling Shibuya Me again! You seem to be doing an awful lot latley, but not so many have been falling for it

[ramchop]

The Google Hate list:

"hate america" = 52,100 hits
"hate israel" = 8,830
"hate france" = 4,370
"hate canada" = 1,680
"hate india" = 1,080
"hate china" = 934
"hate england" = 857
"hate japan" = 814
"hate iraq" = 606
"hate australia" = 534

Love and happiness all over the world.

[GomiGirl]

Yes I read about this case and as many Japanese people are as outraged as the foreign community..

don't blame an entire nation for the actions of of one idiot!!

I don't condemn Southern USA for the actions of the KKK.. do you?

[Shibuya Me]

Yes I read about this case and as many Japanese people are as outraged as the foreign community..

don't blame an entire nation for the actions of of one idiot!!

I don't condemn Southern USA for the actions of the KKK.. do you?

No I do not. That is why I wrote " many " Japanese people and not " ALL" Japanese people....

But still, I have noticed that when one does post something about a negative event about Japan or Japanese people..you and others in this online forum...seem to defend the event by comparing the US to that event. How does one get into your "click?"

I just wonder why you and others are doing this on an ongoing basis? You seem to deflect the event....instead of addressing the event.

And as for you Neo Crombi, I am not fighting with you today....

You tire me...

[ramchop]

It took me a while but I found one (bhutan, faroe islands... all have their haters):

nobody hates Western Samoa.

...not even Wales people who don't follow rugby will have no idea what I'm talking about

[GomiGirl]

One bad example doesn't mean many.. it means, well - one..

I will jump in and squash any broad generalisations based on a small sample size.. check my posts over time.. It doesn't matter if it is a negative statement about something other than Japan.. it is any stereotype or any illogical extrapolation from a single incident that worries me..

[Shibuya Me]

Well. You (Gommi Girl) do deflect the issues.

Do you do that so you don't have to discuss anything?

Anyone can sit on the porch and say you will jump all over anyone who generalizes.

In that way, you never have to really discuss the problem at hand.

I have noticed that a lot of you do this. Not all of you. A lot of you!

I guess the buck just keeps on rolling.....right?

Point in case.." What was this thread about anyway?"

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

[devicenull]

It took me a while but I found one (bhutan, faroe islands... all have their haters):

nobody hates Western Samoa.

...not even Wales people who don't follow rugby will have no idea what I'm talking about

i hate Western Samoa out of general principle as of now

[Shibuya Me]

Crombi...

Well. Firstly I do not have an anger problem. You are really good at turning tables. But I remember you did this to the guy who could not read correctly.

I am at work. I am typing on the fly.

But you Sir, I shall just ignore.

This site is not about discussion. It is about how one or all of you can one up on others.

No need to respond to this. I really did not want to chat with you.

[GomiGirl]

No-one is defending the actions of this guy.. he is a racist idiot... however, I will not get into a general discussion about racism in Japan based on the actions of this one guy...

If you want to discuss him then no problem.

he is a fool.. he obviously has a problem with foreigners for some reason and he has used this to attack a child in his care. This is terrible and he is now being charged and is in court.. hopefully to face the consequences of his actions.

This is the issue at hand.. I don't weep for Japan because of this guy.. that is too far an extrapolation.

What is your opinion about this guy???

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

Crombi...

You have never had the dignety to call me by my actual name. Maybe that is why I have a tendency to point out your failings...

Well. Firstly I do not have an anger problem. You are really good at turning tables. But I remember you did this to the guy who could not read correctly.

it seems you also have a bad memory. I was attacked for not spelling correctly. Now I use word. Gomi can testify for me.

I am at work. I am typing on the fly.

Wow they gave you a job! so early out of the hospital( mental [sic])

But you Sir, I shall just ignore.

I find it funny you still call me sir, as i said to you before. I get called Sir from Mc D's staff that is all the value of the prefex Sir in this day and age. It is a common opinon that that the role of Mc D's staff is a deminuative one and you are willfully giving yourself that status LAUGH

This site is not about discussion. It is about how one or all of you can one up on others.

There are often good discussions just not the ones started by you...

No need to respond to this. I really did not want to chat with you.

This is a public board we are bound to run into each other. But you are free to press the ignore button. But I might say something bad about you and you couldnt see the post, oh the decision must be hard.

[Andocrates]

No I do not. That is why I wrote " many " Japanese people and not " ALL" Japanese people....

But still, I have noticed that when one does post something about a negative event about Japan or Japanese people..you and others in this online forum...seem to defend the event by comparing the US to that event. How does one get into your "click?"

Just because that particular teacher is a racist doesn't make anyone else a racist. To try and extrapolate that and apply it too other people who share his heritage is well - racist.

[AssKissinger]

Shibuya Me, Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I hadn't seen this story. Could somebody please provide a link to this story? This is very shocking and I'm glad you have the appropriate outrage. If this was a teacher at the school where I work I'd kick his ass so fucking hard he'd end up the first man on Mars. An individual may not reflect on the entire nation but the truth is this type of bullying and hatred of anything 'gaijin' or 'outside the norm' (one definition of 'gaijin') is in fact endemic in Japan. Shibuya Me is just bringing some ugly reality to the surface.

[Caustic Saint]

[ramchop]

"love america" = 58,000 hits ( : ratio = 1.18 )
"love israel" = 7,130 (0.81)
"love france" = 12,000 (2.74)
"love canada" = 10,700 (6.36)
"love india" = 6,280 (5.81)
"love china" = 20,300 (21.73)
"love england" = 5,920 (6.17)
"love japan" = 13,700 (16.83)
"love iraq" = 1,860 (3.07)
"love australia" = 8,930 (16.72)

[Big Booger]

I think they should let the boy take wacks with a kendo sword at the guy's chinchin.

Every wack for every single insult or action taken against the boy by the teacher. While taibatsu is illegal against students, I think it should be allowed against teachers especially in cases like this.

[Crispy]

"love america" = 58,000 hits ( : ratio = 1.18 )
"love israel" = 7,130 (0.81)
"love france" = 12,000 (2.74)
"love canada" = 10,700 (6.36)
"love india" = 6,280 (5.81)
"love china" = 20,300 (21.73)
"love england" = 5,920 (6.17)
"love japan" = 13,700 (16.83)
"love iraq" = 1,860 (3.07)
"love australia" = 8,930 (16.72)

It's obvious from all of this that internet users talk more about America than anywhere else...that shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

On topic, that teacher sure is a grumpy old man. He's unable to adapt to the new world, and deserves to be destroyed.

[kamome]

I saw on the news that the child was so afraid of this teacher that he jumped out of a window of the school (?). Of course, this guy will get a slap on the wrist, and that's it. Maybe a transfer to some other school. What a waste of space this guy is. BB is right: whack him in the nads with a kendo stick.

[AssKissinger]

whack him in the nads with a kendo stick.

according to this article the teacher's name is Shinji Hayashida

Teacher from hell...

Tokyo - A Japanese primary school teacher has been suspended after repeatedly inflicting his own bizarrely named punishments on a nine-year-old boy, an education official said on Wednesday.

We concluded he carried out the 'Mickey Mouse,' 'Pinocchio' and other punishments repeatedly over a certain period," the official at the Fukuoka City education board said in reference to the 46-year-old teacher.

"Mickey Mouse" referred to the practice of lifting the child's body off the ground by the ears, and "Pinocchio" meant dragging him around by the nose, the official explained.

The teacher "denied the allegations but hearings involving the school principal, the parents of the boy victim and other pupils convinced us to reach that conclusion", the official said.

The local authority in the southern Japanese city suspended the teacher, identified by the Japanese media as Shinji Hayashida, for six months from August 25 after conducting hearings following complaints from the boy's parents.

'Filthy'

The Shukan Bunshun weekly reported last week that the bullying continued for weeks until it came to light on May 30, adding the boy suffered nosebleeds as a result of the "Pinocchio" punishment.

He had also suffered a broken tooth and sustained injuries to his right thigh that needed three weeks to cure, the weekly said, without giving details.

Hayashida also reportedly told the boy, who is of mixed race, he should die as his blood was "filthy".

The education official admitted the boy had sustained injuries and was currently absent from school as he needed counselling.

"But we have not established the causal relationship between the teacher's conduct and his injuries," the education official said, declining to elaborate further.

The teacher forced the boy to choose one of physical punishments he invented when the pupil could not pack his belongings to go home in the time it took the Hayashida to count to 10, the official said.

About 250 elementary school teachers in Japan were discharged in the year to March due to excessive physical punishment, indecency and other misconduct, while some 350 others were reprimanded or slapped with other administrative penalties, according to the education ministry.

[Pizzicatoblue]

I know how that boy feels...I too am bi-racial. I think he should get what he deserves. This proves that there is a good and a bad for every race.

[Taro Toporific]

.... An individual may not reflect on the entire nation but the truth is this type of bullying and hatred of anything 'gaijin' or 'outside the norm' (one definition of 'gaijin') is in fact endemic in Japan..

The Rest-of-the-Story comes out....


Teacher's `comic' vendetta traumatizes fourth-grader with `tainted blood'
The Asahi Shimbun / Oct 31
...like all of these tragedies, it ends with a lawsuit, a suspended teacher, and a child undergoing psychiatric treatment.
For the boy, the sun went down on his world when his fourth-grade teacher, a 46-year-old male, made the rounds of his students' homes in Fukuoka's Nishi Ward on May 12.
At one stop, a mother innocently told the teacher-a man with a background in engineering who gained his teaching credential via a correspondence course-that her son's great-grandfather was an American.... The teacher in question graduated with an engineering degree and worked in the private sector before beginning his teaching career....
The accused teacher told The Asahi Shimbun that he does not ``remember'' beating the child behind the advisory teachers' back, nor could he recall having referred to ``tainted blood.''
Despite not being able to remember anything, he did say: ``My behavior did not reflect discrimination on my part..."

[Nagged]

gained his teaching credential via a correspondence course

Is this for real? I know there are teacher shortages back home also, but this is a bit much.

Surely they must have some kind of training / qualification period before being allowed to teach?

Then again, the Education Ministry (smirk) leaves a lot to be desired. If I had kids, I'd seriously think of sending them to boarding school back home rather than have them attend here.

At worst, I'd keep a good eye on them. Hope this guy gets some real justice. Picking on some little kid, what a creep.

[Buraku]

check this one

http://www.debito.org/roguesgallery.html#SAPPORO
http://www.debito.org/rapporteur.html

Report to UN Special Rapporteur Mr Doudou Diene, delivered July 2005, Tokyo, Japan

[Andocrates]

gained his teaching credential via a correspondence course

Is this for real? I know there are teacher shortages back home also, but this is a bit much.

What you've never had a Japanese teacher? They have no concept of "teaching" if you fall behind it's all over. Quite a difficult thing to deal with.