This is silly.
I hear that the Koreans are even tougher. If you screw up at work or at school your boss or teacher will punch you.
My fratmate from university teaches English in Hokkaido & He’s seen it. (some) Teachers beat the sh*t out of students if they get out line. The parents whine about it but cant do as thing about because most gakuen (high school) principals are hard asses unlike the pc-run schools in America.
Japan has an almost minuscule crime rate across the board when compared to any other industrialized country.
Kids are mostly raised with no spanky and parentless. Seems we are just now seeing the fruits of this, decades of increasingly career mommies and hands-off alpha dads. Blech.
The punishment for his crime was a public flogging.
His father insisted on having it carried out on national television.
Damn right, you can't compare crime statistics in different countries. LOL.
Why not allow fist-fighting between aggressive students like the NHL? It releases a lot of the bottled-up tension...[/sarc]
I understand Japanese prisons are extremely tough by our standards. Tough by being more psychological then physical, they use the power of boredom to punish. Very little to do, or entertain yourself, life in Japanese “stir” is highly regimented. I remember reading an article that says America criminals that have experienced both say in Japanese prisons weeks seem like months & months are like years.
Hey much prefer being in American prisons.