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Teacher condemned for 'Mickey Mouse' punishments
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200306/28/20030628p2a00m0fp025000c.html
FUKUOKA -- A middle-aged elementary school teacher is in hot water for allegedly bullying one of his students for racist reasons, the Mainichi has learned.
The unnamed instructor at a Fukuoka municipal elementary school has been stripped of his responsibility as a homeroom teacher after the family of the victim, whose great-great-grandfather was American, filed a complaint.
The principal of the school condemned the behavior of the 44-year-old teacher, who bullied the victim by making him a target of his crude "physical punishment."
"The teacher has admitted to me that he made a reference about the 'mixed blood' of the student. It is a big problem to hurt the student's feelings like that," the principal said. "Corporal punishment is unacceptable and making students decide the type of punishment they receive is an awful thing to do."
The principal said the teacher had been inflicting several types of "physical punishment" on his fourth-grade students since April this year.
His students were forced to decide whether they wanted to be punished in the "Mickey Mouse" way, where they had their ears pulled by the teacher, "Pinocchio," where they had their noses pulled, or "Anpan Man," where they their cheeks pulled.
On May 12, the teacher made a visit to the home of a male student. During the meeting, the boy's mother told the teacher that her great-grandfather was American.
To the astonishment of the mother, the teacher reportedly responded by saying, "Japan used to be a pureblooded nation, but unfortunately we now have dirty blood mixed into us."
From the following day, the teacher began to inflict his physical punishment routine only on the boy.
"The teacher started picking out my son as a target of his physical punishment just after the meeting. He is a racist," one of the parents said when they complained of the matter to the school in late May. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, June 28, 2003)

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'Racist' teacher sued for telling 9 y.o. student to kill self
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FUKUOKA -- The parents of a boy who has refused to go to school since his teacher told him to jump from a condominium and die, sued the educator for 13 million yen in damages on Wednesday.
The 9-year-old student of an elementary school in Fukuoka's Nishi-ku has suffered post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) such as headaches and nausea as a result of the teacher's verbal abuse and physical punishment.
"I want to get my son back to a healthy condition as soon as possible," one of his parents said. "I also want the teacher to lodge an apology."
In May this year, the 46-year-old teacher pulled the child's ears in a corporal punishment he called the "Mickey Mouse."
Knowing that the boy had an American ancestor, the teacher also told a class that the boy's blood was not pure because it was "mixed."
"Hurry up and die. Jump off a condo," the teacher was quoted in the suit as having told the boy.
Because of the teacher's verbal abuse words and punishment, the boy began suffering from PTSD and has refused to attend classes since September.
In the suit, the boy and his parents demanded that the teacher and the Fukuoka Municipal Government that supervises the municipal elementary school jointly pay some 13 million yen in damages.
The city acknowledged the teacher's misdeed and in August suspended him from work for six months. A lawyer for the plaintiffs said that they had filed the suit in a bid to clarify what exactly happened and to help the child's recovery. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Oct. 8, 2003)

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英語の方が、日本語よりも、より直接的で、激しいような気がする。"Racist"とまでは、日本語の記事は言っていない。日本語の方がより婉曲的であるようだ。