760. Christian Academy in Japan

The present management of the school is behind an investigation into the past of the school located in Tokyo. What is missing is putting names on the people responsible and if possible if they are alive to today look into whether they can be prosecuted.

Sexual abuse seems to have taken place in the years between the 1950s and 1990s. Other forms of abuse seem to have been uncovered too.

It is safe to state that it could not have been fun to a child at the school back then.

Sources:

• Boarding School for Missionary Kids Uncovers Dozens of Abuse Allegations (Christianity Today)
• School for missionary children in Japan investigating allegations of past abuse (Religion News Service)

644. Kazenoko Gakuen

Kazenoko Gakuen also known as School for Children of the Wind, on Kosagi Island in Japan became known to the public when 2 students died of heatstroke after they were locked into a container as punishment for their behavior in school.

That is an awful slow way to die.

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.

Sources:

• STUDENTS PUNISHED TO DEATH\ TWO LOCKED-UP TEENS DIE OF HEATSTROKE (News & Record Greensboro, The associated press)
• Deadly discipline targeted (The Daily Reporter from Greenfield,)

643. Hiroshima Juvenile Training School

In 2002 a number of teachers at this reform school was arrested due to allogations of violence conducted upon the teenagers contained at the facility.

One of the sources states:

One of them is suspected of showering a 17-year-old boy with cold water and forcing him to wear a paper diaper in front of his friends.

Another allegedly shoved a detergent container into the mouth of a 16-year-old boy, saying, “Swallow this and die.” A third allegedly hit a 17-year-old in the face, kicked him and then caused him to become incontinent by refusing to allow him to use the bathroom.

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager

Sources:

• Reformatory violence (The Japan times)
• Abuse at reform school (SG Forums)

642. Ai Mental School

Ai Mental School was a the time of the sources placed in Nagoya, Japan.

The employees were arrested after a 26 year old man died after he was handcuffed and forced to the facility. Teenagers were found at the school which seemed to specialize themselves in confining people urged by the families of the victims.

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.

Sources:

• Nagoya NPO head held over captive’s death (The Japan Times)
• Totsuka Yacht School case illuminates the problem of reform schools: “Lord of the Flies” institutionalized? (Education in Japan Community blog)

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)