A woman repeatedly slaps a child who has food in his mouth, while the other children continue as if nothing is happening. A female nursery school teacher (25) who worked at the private Matsubara Nursery School in Tagawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture, was indicted on assault charges for allegedly abusing two children. The nursery school's security camera captured a "bizarre scene" (according to a relative of one of the children). The prefectural police are continuing their investigation, believing that other nursery school teachers were also abusing the children.
Last August, angry shouts rang out in the 5-year-old class (19 children) at the same kindergarten. A female nursery teacher made a child who was slow eating lunch stand up and repeatedly hit him in the face. The child endured the attack in silence. Meanwhile, the other children who had finished eating and were in recess remained silent, showing no signs of surprise.
https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20260121-GYT1T00133/
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They all do it, the staff all cover for each other and sometimes the principal too, if one is doing it you can be sure others do it and the principal knows, otherwise she’d be warned not to do it and maybe put on probation.
When I first came to Japan and did random arubaito work at some of these schools I definitely saw this happen a few times. Just my observation but seemed to happen more at the cheap/ lower cost nurseries
>_The child endured the attack in silence. Meanwhile, the other children who had finished eating and were in recess remained silent, showing no signs of surprise._
It’s not a ‘bizarre scene’. It means it has happened so many times that all the kids completely withdraw/retract as a defense mechanism. Similar to kids at home who are subjected to regular scenes of domestic violence.