What is the best way to eradicate bullying from schools?

Sunday 17th August, 06:32 AM JST

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outofmydepth at 04:32 PM JST - 18th August

nutsagain - thank you. i know her but she doesn`t bother me (there are actually a few but as i work in classrooms and visit the teachers room for only minutes at a time) as a foreigner i can usually stand up to that kind of bullying (or ignore back as the case may be). i worry about esp. my teenager.
BlackTieAffair at 04:39 PM JST - 18th August

Overall, I think the schools here seem to turn a blind eye to this type thing in so many ways. A friends daughter was bullied and raped on school grounds and nothing happened. The school blamed the girl and looked down on her mom cause she is a single parent. Even the boys parents did not have much to say in regards to the matter. The parents and school officials had more concern for their family names than what happened to the girl.
nandakandamanda at 05:36 PM JST - 18th August

In the UK there is something called "sending someone to Coventry." Some poor kid discovers that no-one will say a word to him/her.

Talented loners tend to get spotted and picked on.
Starviking at 05:39 PM JST - 18th August

BlackTieAffair, was this rape reported to the police?
Gloobey at 05:50 PM JST - 18th August

What's needed here is a little of what the Japanese sorely lack - good old fashioned bollocks! Why don't they just stand up for themselves as appose to caving in to this 'bullying'? I was bullied as a child - had a metal comb dragged across my face. That's bullying, not this 'nobody talks to me' cobblers. They aren't nice people, you don't want to talk to them. Get over it, FFS!
TheNewZen at 05:56 PM JST - 18th August

Great advise.

Try that in the UK, etc where most bullies carry switch-blade knifes, etc. Heck even 30yrs ago carrying a knife was common.

And guess what, the first you know about the knife is when it sticks in your guts. Or how about sharpened bicycle spoke, chains, sharpened coins, etc.

Guess most of the guys that give the advise of standing up never grew up in a rough neighbourbood.

Just my view.
chardk1 at 07:34 PM JST - 18th August

Interestingly, a lot of people accuse Koreans of whining about Japanese mistreatment but you have to admit the mean-spirited among the Japanese really know how to make people miserable when they think they can get away with it, even when it is one of their own. It does make one wonder about the standard Japanese explanation/excuse that "we were no worse than any strong country ruling the weak back then." Looking at Japanese bullies even today you have to wonder that maybe, just maybe, at least some of them were . . .
isthistheend at 10:22 PM JST - 18th August

Yes, that comment about mokusatsu is the underlying behavior, among and by Japanese for Japanese and foreigners. We are a given, in fact, it is like a constitutional RIGHT to mokusatsu or just plain out right bully the foreigners intelligence (none to begin with, right?) And the part that makes it so wierd, is that the behavior is never "outgrown". Just a month ago, I received the royal mokusatsu treatment from a 60-something retired guy on the way home from a golf outing. He wouldn't talk to me for the whole 3 hour trip, despite my trying to talk about something objective like the weather in English (he only speaks to me in English), but when that didn't illicit a response, I asked him something in Japanese 10 minutes later, again met by mokusatsu. Only the next day, did I understand the cause of his anger, in an e-mail from him, he described how stupid it was for me to have mistaken our meeting time, though I was out to his car within 30-seconds of receiving his keitai phone announcing his arrival. As non-sensical as this is, there was another reason for his anger, I told him to stop harassing me before a shot (by talking loudly in Japanese about how nevous a golfer the foreigner (me) is), as if I can't understand a word of it, though I'm fluent in the language. It just takes so many twists and turns and you can't believe that a grown-up would take part in it, but they do, so....
ProudKoreanGuy at 11:33 PM JST - 18th August

I thought bullying was rare in Japanese schools.
BlackTieAffair at 12:23 AM JST - 19th August

Starviking, The school told the mother that it was best to handle internally to avoid scandal and shame. The staff had more concern for their retirement checks than the welfare of the young girl. I told the mother that I would help her fight for justice but she said it would be better to move to another country. The girl finished the school year but had to deal with the whispers of other students and gossip. I met with the principal and he could not look me in the eye as we spoke. I left his office told him he was a sorry excuse for a Japanese man as tears ran down his face.
koroke at 02:04 AM JST - 19th August

school bulling results will results a bat in your testicles or nipple twisters.
Starviking at 05:44 PM JST - 19th August

Kudos to you for standing up for that girl BTA. I wonder how many other women that boy will go on to rape because of the shame avoidance of his school...
Hoolie at 09:18 AM JST - 21st August

Surprised that nobody made a comment about letting the teachers know that they will be held personally and criminally responsible if they encourage bullying in any form, tacitly or otherwise.

A surprisingly large amount of the bullying that goes on in Japanese schools is not only something that teachers are aware of, in many cases, they are actively encouraging it.
ProudKoreanGuy at 11:58 AM JST - 22nd August

A surprisingly large amount of the bullying that goes on in Japanese schools is not only something that teachers are aware of, in many cases, they are actively encouraging it.

I find that incredulous.
AlliedForces at 12:04 PM JST - 22nd August

PrfoudKoreanGuy;

It is true buddy. Teachers instigate and condone a lot of bullying in Japanese schools. The Japanese side of my family has experienced it first hand. Bullying is accepted behaivour in Japan, thus it is condoned.