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Cause of a girl’s suicide
(From The Japan Times November 11 issue)
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小6女児自殺の原因
On Oct. 23, Ms. Akiko Uemura, a sixth-grade girl in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture, died after hanging herself. On Nov. 8, Kiryu’s board of education made public a report saying she had been psychologically bullied. It denied a cause-and-effect relationship between the bullying and her suicide. But Oct. 25, Mr. Yoichi Kishi, principal of the municipal Niisato Higashi Primary School, said school authorities had known that the girl “was not in good condition as indicated by her isolation at lunch time.” We wonder why the school could not act soon enough to prevent her suicide.
群馬県桐生市の小学6年生、上村明子さんが10月23日、首吊り自殺をした。市教委は11月8日に彼女が精神的苦痛を受けていたと報告、いじめと自殺の因果関係は否定した。しかし校長は、彼女が給食時間に孤立していたなどのよくない状況にあったことを学校側が認識していたと述べていた。なぜ自殺を防げなかったのか。
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