Bullied elementary schoolgirl sues 'racist' classmates
(Mainichi Shimbun, April 18, 2004)
KAWASAKI -- A girl diagnosed as suffering from a mental illness often experienced by combat veterans has sued the parents of classmates she accuses of bullying....
.....Accused in the lawsuit are four adults, the parents of two children who teased the girl about her mixed heritage, pulled her hair and were otherwise violent toward her at school from about April 2000, when the children were all in the third grade.
In 2000 and again in 2003, the girl, whose father is Chinese and mother Japanese, was diagnosed as suffering from PTSD brought on by the rough treatment her classmates had handed out to her.