Kirk here with a follow-up to my post about the Syugakukan High School issue. Here’s what I posted the other day:
https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/7204145446325492
Last night, RKK aired a segment that revealed some more details. That report can be found here:
https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/rkk/32597?display=1
The two screenshots I’ve added to this post are from that report. This first is of an upperclassman who reportedly explained that he hit a new student “because he was goofing off (horsing around, not taking things seriously).” The implication (whether deserved or not) seems to be that the soccer team (or the school) had a culture of violence.
The second screenshot is of the headcoach (not the person caught on film kicking a student). He is reported to have referred to the student who published the video as the “kagaisha.” Kagaishi (加害者) is the opposite of “victim.” So, it would seem that the head coach saw the REAL harm to have been caused by the whistle-blowing student – not the violent coach.
This head coach is also reported to have talked about how this incident might lead to “being sued for damages.” It’s not entirely clear from the report (at least to me) who would be sued for damages to whom but the impression I get from RKKs report is that he was implying that the whistle-blowing student might have to pay damages. The school is reported to have said that his “comments were clearly inappropriate.”
It would seem that the perspective of this head coach may have been behind the YouTube video put up by the students in which they bowed their heads in apology.