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The story
At Nissho Gakuen High School in Miyazaki City, it emerged that a first-year male soccer club member stole a classmate’s wallet from a bag in the dormitory on three separate occasions, handing the stolen cash to four club members who then spent it at pachinko parlors and elsewhere. Five students received disciplinary action, including expulsion. Yomiuri Shimbun Online reported the story on October 27, and it was picked up by 5ch’s Geinou/Sports Breaking News+ board. In the thread, posters found the article’s explanation confusing — one of the stolen wallets actually belonged to a female student who wasn’t even in the club — and speculated about what had really happened among those involved. At the same time, some praised the school for not punishing the whole club collectively and instead expelling only the students directly responsible.
10/27 (Tue) 11:57 — Yomiuri Shimbun Online
It has come to light that five first-year male members of the soccer club at Nissho Gakuen High School (Miyazaki City) received disciplinary action, including expulsion, for using money from wallets stolen from two of the school’s students.
According to the school, one male club member stole a wallet from another male club member’s bag in the boys’ dormitory a total of three times between August and October. The stolen cash was reportedly divided among four club members and spent at pachinko parlors and elsewhere.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
The schoolgirl mistakenly put her own wallet in the boy's bag, and that's what got stolen.
She probably put it in his bag because they're close — she told him she'd lost her wallet, and he eventually couldn't keep quiet about it and told a teacher.
They didn't let it slide with just quitting the club.
Forget club rules — stealing and blowing it on pachinko is expulsion-worthy on its own.
Honestly, it's arrest-worthy too.
So bad behavior doesn't mean everyone gets punished together, huh?
This is soccer, not baseball ("yakyu"), but still — pretty soft.
Catch it early and you can treat it.
So when do we get the names of these thieves?
Expulsion was the right call here.
It would instantly turn this into a story that goes way beyond the club.
Or maybe they're just dating — one or the other.
Yeah, even the live-commentary thread for that is dead too, lol
Is that some kind of secret signal?
That's an offside trap, that is.
Isn't a school supposed to teach them morals?
What's the point of just abandoning them?
They violated the expulsion rules, plain and simple.
Following the rules is what being an adult means.
They're teaching them that bad actions have consequences.
If you let this slide, kids grow up thinking nothing they do will ever be punished — and that mindset is exactly what leads people into serious crime in their 20s.
That's exactly how they're protecting the two students whose wallets got stolen.
I genuinely can't tell what this is saying.
Does this mean the soccer player who stole it accidentally put it in the girl's bag by mistake?
It got stolen from the same bag three times lol
And the third time, it happened to be the girl's wallet in there lol
Get it now? lol
You don't just mix up bags like that.
The guy who owns the bag and the girl who owns the wallet are probably dating, or at least super close.
Maybe they went to karaoke together — in a closed room like that, it's easy to mix up identical school bags.
Wait, hold on lol
Splitting the cash and still having money left for pachinko means they had some real cash lol
Do they even still have 1-yen pachinko machines around now? lol
They should've withdrawn from the tournament.
If this were baseball, that'd be an automatic withdrawal case.
"Oops, I accidentally put it in someone else's bag" — isn't that weird?
Alright detectives, it's your turn to crack this one.
The bags are school-issued and all the same design, so it's not that strange, is it?
This sentence is genuinely broken Japanese.
The reporter needs to go study grammar.
(Can someone please explain this)
A girl close to the soccer player mistakenly put her wallet in his bag.
Sentences that front-load context like that always feel kind of English-style.
Background and Key Points of Discussion
According to the school’s statement, the thefts occurred three times between August and October, all from the same bag, and the number of victims grew when another student’s wallet happened to get mixed in during the final incident. Because the Yomiuri article condenses the sequence of events, the line about the female student “mistakenly putting her wallet in thinking it was her own bag” is hard to follow, and it fueled misunderstanding and speculation in the thread. As a private school, Nissho Gakuen has the authority under its own regulations to decide on expulsion — a point that drew attention in contrast to public schools, where lighter penalties like suspension are more common for similar cases. It has also been noted that the school chose not to hold the entire club collectively responsible, which many have compared to past cases where strong athletic programs withdrew from tournaments entirely over a single member’s misconduct, making the school’s approach here a notable point of divergence.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Breaking News+) thread “[Miyazaki] Nissho Gakuen High School soccer club member steals wallet in dorm, distributes money to 4 others to spend at pachinko parlors, etc. — 5 students expelled or otherwise disciplined.”
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