World Japan Nation of Bullies: 57% Bullied, 27% Consider Suicide

[tom_mai78101]

After scandal at Shiga shocked the nation, a survey of over a million Japanese has revealed the unshocking truth of bullying in Japan – that most Japanese have been bullied, some 40% have got in on the action themselves, and that massive numbers have considered killing themselves as a result of the torment inflicted.

The survey, conducted online by NicoNico Douga, probably ranks as one of the largest ever taken of Japanese, with 1,072,014 participants.

Asking whether respondents had ever been bullied at school or college, they found 57.2% of those asked had, with women slightly more frequently victimised at 60.5% to men’s 54.1%.

Unsurprisingly for an all but universal social phenomenon, there was little difference between the areas with the highest reported incidence (Kanto and Kyoto with nearly 60% having been bullied) and those with the lowest (various backwater prefectures with only 50%).

Also unsurprisingly given the Japanese love of preserving “harmonious” relations, most bullying manifested itself indirectly – 32% experienced malign gossip and ostracism, 19.3% experienced insults and “verbal violence,” 15.6% had their possessions hidden or destroyed, and 12.6% were outright assaulted.

Read more here (NSFW Sankaku Forums)

This is the more of the dark side of the Japanese life. There might be little differences in other countries out there.

 

[iPeez]

That is sad - The japanese people are living in their own world-bubble tho!
...That 12,6%! woaaaw.

 

[tom_mai78101]

One of the Top Quality posts in the comments (Qualtiy ratings are based on floating point precision) . Quoted below:

These attitudes the Japanese seem to have toward bullying & how to handle it seem to be similar to the attitudes many Blacks seemed to have in America prior to the civil rights movement when White people beat, jailed, raped, or killed them: Take the abuse, cry to yourself or God out of sight of man, hope nothing else happens too soon, try to go about your business like nothing ever happened, and pray someone else somewhere else comes along to actually do something about it.

 

[YourFace]

Yeah there's so many animes and mangas are about this bullying and suicide. It's something all of them can relate to

 

[FireCat]

That is sad - The japanese people are living in their own world-bubble tho!
...That 12,6%! woaaaw.

QFT

 

[iPeez]

Quantum Field Theory

Yeah there's so many animes and mangas are about this bullying and suicide. It's something all of them can relate to

Woooaww... shattering glass..