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Comedian Kazlaser (42) spoke about the corporal punishment he endured during the Showa era on the YouTube channel “Kazlaser and Shoinji’s Chill Room.” Looking back, he said, “I got beaten up constantly,” and made clear that his resentment toward the teachers of that time still hasn’t faded: “I won’t forgive them. I don’t think that was good guidance at all.” On the 5ch Entertainment & Sports Hayabusa+ thread, voices defending corporal punishment as “tough love” clashed with those calling it “nothing but violence,” and posts poured in contrasting discipline at public schools versus prep schools and club teams, along with people sharing their own experiences of being hit.
Kazlaser reveals past of receiving corporal punishment — still resents his teachers today: “I won’t forgive them. I don’t think that was good guidance at all.”
Kazlaser (42), of the comedy duo “Maple Chogokin,” appeared on an episode of the YouTube channel “Kazlaser and Shoinji’s Chill Room [Official]” posted on the 5th, where he spoke about corporal punishment in the Showa era.
When the topic of “things that were tolerated in the Showa era” came up, Kazlaser recalled, “I got beaten up constantly. I just figured, ‘well, that’s how it is.’”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
It's not that you forgive them — time just passes, but you keep resenting them for life
There's no such thing as "tough love"
Lousy teachers were just committing acts of violence, plain and simple
What really matters is what he did to get hit in the first place
Prep school teachers never use corporal punishment, after all
Same goes for club sports
Since parents are paying out of pocket
there's no forced buzzcuts or corporal punishment
But back in the day, public junior high baseball teams —
even weak ones that lost in the first round of tournaments —
forced buzzcuts, and you got beaten if you talked back
If you were a failing student, teachers and classmates would team up
and there was a lot of shunning and bullying
I don't really remember the old stuff that well
Huh?
Forgot your homework — slap. Forgot your gym cap — slap. Other stuff I can't even mention — slap. That was just a normal sight in the '80s.
but I didn't cry
"If someone strikes your right homo, turn to him the left also" (a crude pun swapping 頬/"cheek" for ホモ/"homo")
but I did get corporal punishment that hurt or was humiliating — still, I don't hold any grudge at all
But he can't say that part out loud, since in showbiz
you'd get blacklisted for it, so all he can do is vent his frustration outward instead
The teacher who hit this guy — who lives in the coddled world of show business — is the very embodiment of justice.
Do you even know how many stars are up there?
Just the stars observed in this universe alone outnumber all the grains of sand on Earth by a hundred million times over
Must be a huge fan of Space Adventure Cobra (classic space-pirate manga/anime)
And then once the kids hit high school age, they suddenly stop laying a hand on them
Guess that settles it — you're the type who's doomed to get hit your whole life lol
Living a life where you just keep running from the facts like that must be pretty hollow
but one time I was smoking in the bathroom and a gym teacher with a permed hairdo punched me while crying, and it snapped me out of it
Funny thing is, that teacher's fist felt kind of warm
If you still can't figure out why gym teachers with permed hairdos exist, you're never going to wake up, not in this lifetime
Just remember that your own sense of justice is actually pretty small
What you do with it is up to you
Know this — there's no reason anywhere in this whole wide world for me to be boxed in by your idea of justice
So you're saying your own sense of justice is small? Don't you get it? lol
You're annoying, so could you just leave me alone?
Nice job picking a fight with me, I guess
Worshipping something like that means you've been brainwashed
basically never comes up — so what kind of retirement do these corporal-punishment teachers end up living?
If they get invited to a reunion as a "beloved mentor," do they show up and grovel on the floor apologizing?
You already have your answer, just look at what our "heroic" police officers get up to
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Article 11 of the School Education Act prohibits corporal punishment, but how it has actually been enforced has shifted dramatically over time. From the Showa era into the early Heisei era, an atmosphere tolerating it as “tough love” remained deeply entrenched in both schools and sports clubs. That began to change after a 2013 incident in which a student’s suicide, linked to corporal punishment in the basketball club at Osaka Municipal Sakuranomiya High School, became a major social issue — prompting Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to investigate the situation and push schools to reform their disciplinary practices. Opinions in the thread split over a single question: whether corporal punishment can simply be chalked up to “the mood of the times.” Testimonies like Kazlaser’s, in which the resentment hasn’t faded even decades later, sat side by side with accounts from people saying they “don’t hold a grudge even after being hit.” Some pointed out that corporal punishment was rarer in settings like club teams where parents pay for coaching, but it’s worth noting that this isn’t data demonstrating any causal link between corporal punishment and changes in delinquency rates — it’s an impression based on individual experiences.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Entertainment & Sports Hayabusa+) thread “[Entertainment] Kazlaser Reveals Past of Receiving Corporal Punishment — Still Resents His Teachers: “I Won’t Forgive Them. I Don’t Think That Was Good Guidance At All.”“
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