FUKUOKA (Kyodo) Parents with delinquent children are flocking to a nonprofit school in Tagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture, in a desperate effort to help their offspring turn their lives around.
"I have to undergo a month of physical training if we fail to wash a bowl properly," said a 13-year-old boy who entered the school recently. He said that with a touch of sarcasm, but his eyes were brimming.
Ryo Kudo, the former leader of a hot-rodder gang, opened Tagawa Fureaigijyuku (Tagawa Personal-Love School) to help juvenile delinquents become independent by living communally.