637. Totsuka Yacht School

Totsuka Yacht School is a reform school founded in 1976. The student population seems now to include students with emotional problems which should have been treated by professional people in the health care system instead of low-paid teachers.

As result several teenagers have died. Rather strange the principal, Hiroshi Totsuka, was allowed back to work after serving a prison sentence because his actions or lack of them led to the deaths among students at the school.

It cannot be a fun place to be as a teenager.

Sources:

• Another question mark over Totsuka school’s education methods (Japan Today)
• Suicide leap at disciplinary school (Japan Times)
• Anger as brutal teacher is freed (The Independent)