A 15-year-old boy in Hiroshima Prefecture committed suicide in December after his school gave him wrong information about his eligibility for a high school entrance exam, the local board of education announced.
The news follows the suicide last month of another 15-year-old boy, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, in which the student and his 47-year-old mother reportedly hanged themselves shortly after he took a high school entrance exam.
The board of education in Fuchu, Hiroshima Prefecture, said Monday that it did not make the boy's Dec. 8 suicide public for three months at the request of his parents. They worried the news would shock the school's other students preparing for entrance exams, the officials said.