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Ryukoku University announced on August 27 that members of its hardball baseball team had assaulted fellow teammates and filmed themselves defecating in a river, then shared the footage on a television in the team dormitory. More than 20 players in the dorm had also had money and other belongings stolen, but this was never reported to coaches. Despite a one-month suspension of team activities, the team is still set to compete when the fall league opens on September 5 — a decision that drew skepticism on 5ch.
On the 27th, Ryukoku University announced that its hardball baseball team, a member of the Kansai Big Six Baseball League, had engaged in problematic conduct including assaults between teammates and inappropriate video filming. The team had been under a one-month suspension of activities through that same day. It is scheduled to compete when the fall league season opens on September 5.
According to the announcement, in May of last year a then-second-year student kicked a first-year student in the stomach and otherwise assaulted him after forcing him to impersonate him. Between March and June of this year, a student coach who is now a third-year student slapped three first-year students in the face and struck them on the shoulder. In February of last year, a member grabbed a prospective student — who had joined practice before formally enrolling — by the collar while reprimanding him. No injuries were reported in any of the incidents.
It also came to light that around February and March of last year, several team members filmed themselves defecating in a river in Shiga Prefecture and shared the footage by playing it on a television in the team’s dormitory in Otsu. More than 20 people in the dorm had had money and other items stolen, but this had not been reported to coaches.
Source: yomiuri.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
it's an everyday occurrence in college sports clubs.
baseball guys are all perverts.
Don't let this slide — these clubs are supposed to be part of their education.
This part is the worst of it — the people running education are more rotten than the baseball world itself.
Some guys keep causing trouble even after going pro.
And the ones who never made it pro are just dropouts from society.
It's basically a gang of criminals.
so childish.
Everyone's like this, honestly.
Japanese aggression peaks
when people are trying to restore their own mental balance.
The weaker someone is, the more fear they carry,
the more extreme it gets — that's all this is.
seriously disgusting.
That filth flows into Lake Biwa, and Lake Biwa's water runs down the Yodo River to Osaka,
and that's the water Osaka residents drink.
Why the hell should we have to drink water contaminated by the Ryukoku baseball team's crap?
Who cares, Lake Biwa's already got waxy, mummified corpses in it.
They say there are armor-clad corpses
drifting around down there, carried by the current —
the place is basically full of Tajimi Yozos (a corpse-in-the-lake character from the horror classic 'The Inugami Family').
When a place has that much history, it gets messy.
Glad I'm in the Kanto region.
Shohei's busy trying to make a baby right now —
cut him some slack.
If this were working adults, they'd be socially cancelled for it.
They need to remove whoever's responsible and take action, fast.
It's all about dominance —
establishing a pecking order gives them a rush.
These are the kind of people who really should be in counseling.
But honestly, that's just your typical Japanese person —
spiteful underneath.
Or is it only the ones who are already messed up who keep playing baseball until 20?
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Sports/Entertainment News+) thread “[College Baseball] Ryukoku University Baseball Team Announces Problem Conduct Including ‘Assault Between Members’ and ‘Filming and Sharing Videos of Defecation’… Theft Also Occurred in the Dorm.”
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