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JALT Bilingualism SIG

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This page was last updated: April 1, 2009

Bullying in Japanese Schools:

International Perspectives

Edited by Amanda Gillis-Furutaka

Oct. 1999, 52 pages

600 yen + postage

Abstract

This monograph begins with an overview of bullying in Japanese schools based on Ministry of Education reports and newspaper articles. Next are fourteen personal accounts of bullying, ranging from verbal teasing to physical violence, experienced by students from kindergarten to high school age. The monograph concludes with a review of a book about the socialization experiences of international families in Japan.

Twelve of the personal accounts are written by parents of children who experienced some form of bullying. One account is written by a Japanese woman who experienced bullying as a child; and another (the only one written in Japanese) is an explanation of the problems returnee students often face when they re-enter the Japanese school system.

The compilation offers a wide variety of explanations as to why bullying occurs in Japanese schools, and it gives valuable suggestions for dealing with bullying at the individual, family, and school level.