Japan rocked by bullying scandal after team withdraws from high school baseball tournament | Japan
One of Japan’s most popular sports tournaments is to hug a team accused of abuse of a younger teammate.
The Choir High School, which represents the state of Hiroshima in Summer High School Baseball Championships, announced that it will no longer participate on Sunday.
The withdrawal of the team comes after a public attack that states that many of its members physically exploited a young player earlier this year. The organization organ of the event found that the internal investigation attacked a young child in a dormitory in January and made a serious condemnation to the school in March.
Reverends led to a reaction to a bomb threat and events on the social media, as well as calls for the deportation of the team, as well as a bomb threat and events where choir students were chased on their way to school.
There are 49 teams in the summer tournament at the Koshien Stadium near Osaka and one of the most important events of Japan’s sports calendar, which attracts great participation in millions and TV audiences.
The event, which was first held in 1915, launched careers of a series of famous Japanese baseball players, including Los Angeles Dodgers Superstar Shohei Ohtani.
Masakazu Hori, the director of Koreo, told reporters that he decided to retreat to protect the students and staff of the school. Describing the attack case as “deeply”, he added: ık We decided to get out and we will rapidly carry out a revision of our education method. ”
The Japanese media found that the school’s investigation was pushed into the unnamed child’s chest and slapped in his face. After apologizing the attackers, he was transferred to another school.
The school reported to a condemnation but initially not publicly open.
The police reportedly investigated the January incident after the victim filed a complaint and examined the additional allegations made by an former member of the team of a third -party organ.
Tetsuyuki Nakai, the coach of the baseball team, survived his duties while investigating.
Minister of Education Toshiko Abe expressed “deep regret ında about students’“ forgiveness ”actions, but warned social media users not to publish unfounded allegations against school -affiliated people.
Japan’s largest amateur sports event, the tournament for the first time, critics’ refusal to refuse to reject the mockery of sports, claiming that the allegations of abuse allegedly could not find.
In 2015, PL Gakuen High School, one of the most successful teams of the tournament, said that after the allegations of violence and bullying, he would stop hiring new players.
In 2023, the coach of another top team had to resign after being accused of physical abuse. And last month, the players competing in the qualifying match for the Koshien tournament were ordered to smile and fluctuate to supporters during an opening ceremony.
The organizer of the tournament, Japanese High School Baseball Federation, said that “violence, bullying and unreasonable hierarchical relations will continue to eliminate efforts”.
The tradition of producing professional players is the first school that retreated after games started in the long history of the tournament.
Withdrawal means that the Koreo will lose the second round of the scheduled on Thursday. Inside a clip On social media, several members of the team, who was defeated in the first round of armature last week, refused to observe the tradition of handshake with their competitors at the end of the game.
