Japanese teen 'forced to practice suicide'

Korea Herald/Asia News Network | Thu Jul 5 2012







JAPAN - A boy who committed suicide last year in Otsu, Japan may have been forced to do so by school bullies, Japan's The Mainichi reported Wednesday.

A school survey conducted after the 13-year-old boy killed himself last October found that he had been coerced into "practicing suicide" every day.





"(The deceased boy) had sent an e-mail to the bullies, saying 'I will die' or 'I will give my life to a friend with cancer,'" said some of the students who participated in the survey.

Out of 320 students surveyed, 15 testified that the boy was severely bullied.

The victim's parents are pursuing legal actions against the school, claiming that the bullying caused their son to take his own life.

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