Asia | Japanese education
Evacuees from Fukushima are the latest to suffer torment in class
|YOKOHAMA|5 min read
FIVE months after the tsunami that led to his family’s evacuation from Fukushima, the boy enrolled at a new school in Yokohama. His new classmates were pitiless. They called him “germ boy”. They stole his things. They punched and kicked him and threw him down the stairs; they took him to a “study” room and beat him some more. He was eight years old.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “All against one”
From the April 15th 2017 edition
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