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The story
The Japan Student Baseball Association’s review committee meeting on the 9th announced disciplinary measures for 14 high school cases, revealing that the baseball team coach at Sakushin Gakuin (Tochigi) received a six-month suspension for corporal punishment. The coach was found to have forced a student to kneel in seiza for an hour while reprimanding him for sloppy daily conduct, which was ruled corporal punishment; the case came to light through an anonymous tip sent to the Tochigi High School Baseball Federation. On 5ch, some voices asked, “Is kneeling really corporal punishment?”, while others circulated claims that this same coach had previously had an infielder catch throws bare-handed, breaking a bone — fueling repeated comments that this wasn’t his first offense.
Published 10/9 (Fri) 16:56
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The Japan Student Baseball Association held a review committee meeting on the 9th and announced disciplinary measures for 14 high school cases.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
When are they finally going to switch to a youth-academy development model like soccer or table tennis?
As long as everyone's getting hyped over child abuse dressed up as the 'Koshien dream,' it's never going to happen.
① [Kendai Takasaki × (Narashino × Kasumigaura)]
② [(Yamanashi Gakuin × Yamamura Gakuen) × (Keio × Sano Nichidai)]
③ [(Seibudai × Yokohama) × (Sakushin Gakuin × Jutoku)]
④ [(Senshu Univ. Matsudo × Teikyo Daisan) × (Mizuki × Kiryu Daiichi)]
There's a limit to how much of a scumbag a person can be (lol)
Isn't that just the weather or temperature being bad?
Don't go releasing such soft kids into society.
lol
Was there really no one around who called it abuse, or did the school try to cover it up?
At least baseball actually punishes failure to report — that's something.
Other school clubs don't even have that kind of reporting obligation.
I could manage it if it's Orion's Belt.
Last time he had a player catch throws bare-handed and ended up breaking a bone.
'Let your hands learn the feel of a hardball, not your head.'
'Once you break a bone, a stronger one grows back.'
This coach is out of his mind.
What this coach actually did was have an infielder's throw to first base caught bare-handed, though.
Background and Key Points of This Story
The Japan Student Baseball Association’s review committee meeting is a system for reviewing misconduct and corporal punishment in high school baseball clubs and deciding on disciplinary measures; on the 9th, 14 cases were announced together. One of them was the Sakushin Gakuin coach, who received a six-month suspension. The stated reason was making a student kneel in seiza for an hour, and notably it came to light not through the school’s own disclosure but via an anonymous tip to the Tochigi High School Baseball Federation. Reactions on the thread split between those asking “Is kneeling really corporal punishment?” and those pointing to claims that the same coach had previously had a player catch throws bare-handed, resulting in a broken bone. That said, the stated basis for this punishment is specifically the kneeling incident — the past injury-related coaching is not explicitly cited as a direct grounds for the disciplinary action. The fact that it surfaced through a third-party tip illustrates how corporal punishment within school sports clubs can remain hidden from outside view.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread “[High School Baseball] Sakushin Gakuin — Coach Given 6-Month Suspension for Corporal Punishment, Forced Student to Kneel for an Hour Over Sloppy Conduct Warning, Revealed via Anonymous Tip to Tochigi Baseball Federation.”
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