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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.
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.
- The japanese people are living in their own world-bubble tho!
