Tokyo teacher fired for uploading dead children's images

I always thought there was somthing militeristic about the school system....

rightfully deserved.

 

Why didn't they sack him earlier?
I heard about this case last autumn or so....

 

Phew, glad he wasn't fired for distributing child-porn...

 

Good point. He was arrested and indicted because of the distributing of child-porn. It is strange that the Tokyo metropolitan government's Education Bureau didn't see fit to mentioned that that was a major factor in letting him go.

 

He was not convicted apparently. I would not be surprised if they were stretching the definition of child porn and that the images were just of shirtless boys in shorts or something, and they know the case will fail.

Not sure about that, but it seems that they are now stretching the copyright law. The images, at best, belong to the people who took them, not the parents of the subjects of the pictures. If the photographers are not charging for copyright infringement, nor did they file for a clear copyright on the pics, then I DO NOT see a case here.

I would think the principal could just order him to take down the web site or be severly fined or fired for not doing so, just like the teacher ordered to play Kimigayo.

Do we live by laws or by the authorities making up the rules as they go along? I think I know the answer to that.



Wow! A marathon session!

 

That's because it wasn't a factor in letting him go. Putting up images of dead children was the factor here. This is Japan, and unfortunatley, there are many sickos in administrative positions, such as the Tokyo Metropolitan's Education Bureau, that don't deem child pornography as a bad thing.

A few years ago a friend of mine was celebrating his birthday and his boss gave him a 'porn' magazine. The magazine was just packed out with pictures of children under the age of 10, wearing swim costumes or naked! My friend was arrested for beating up his boss and charged with assault (since gone back to his home country several years ago), but the boss was not charged with indecent behaviour or anything. The police didn't deem a magazine with naked children in it as an offence!

 

We've gone through this argument before on another thread, and while I agree with you that the definition of child porn is problematic, in this guy's case he was caught with photos that he had taken himself, of naked schoolboys getting changed in lockerooms and on field trips.

Whether or not you consider it child-porn is one thing, but I'm sure you will agree it is not really acceptable behaviour for an elementary school teacher to photograph students getting changed without their permission, then sending those photos via email to other people?

It IS strange that the Education Board doesn't consider such behaviour serious enough to warrant any punishment. It is their job to protect kids, not exploit them.

 

Context is everything. The Led Zeppelin album "Houses of the Holy" has several naked children on it. As they are not shown in a sexually explicity manner, its legal even in the U.S.

It sounds like your friend was also guilty of battery. Its amazing that someone could be so upset over offensive and possibly illegal pictures that they think its a good idea start punching. Some people have extreme difficulty prioritizing it seems.

 

I do. I most certainly do NOT agree with willy-nilly application of the law however.



How many kids were harmed by this guy? How many traumatized? How many scarred for life by this guy`s actions? I think the BOD might have considered these questions and more.



There are naked pictures of children on the cover of "Houses of the Holy" by Led Zeppelin. Some would call that art.

I dont know in what context he took the pics, but just because some people may find them sexually stimulating does not make them sexual. I dont find pics of feet be stimulating at all, but a foot fetishist would.

And how naked is naked? Japanese people consider shirtless to be naked. I am totally serious. Until I hear about pictures of genitals, I am going to assume there were none or at least at quite a distance.



He was so offended by pictures he decided to throw punches? Some people have trouble prioritizing it seems. Clearly violence is the bigger no-no.

 

Hello, again!

Certainly food for thought. As others have mentioned, I am not sure that punching the other person was your friend's best option. As to the photos in your story, since we cannot see them, it is truly hard to comment directly. I would say that things are a lot different now than they were years ago. After all, years ago the age of consent was much younger than it is now. I am of the opinion that raising it was a good thing and the decrease of child pornography that was much more prevalent years ago is also a good thing.

However, this is not just a company but the Tokyo metropolitan government's Education Bureau. They are supposed to have the welfare of children as their first priority. All of the teacher's actions mentioned in the article are seemly reasonable reasons to be fired, at least to me.

 

I agree, and I wouldn't consider Houses of the Holy cover pornography. There was a BBC documentary a few years back called The Human Body. It has scenes of fully naked children/teens, and I wouldn't call that pornography either, though I'm sure there are some people out there who USE it as pornography.


In this case, I do not know, but the police seem to think it was naked enough to warrant an arrest. I presume they wouldn't act if it was just kids with no tops on, but you never know...