• The father of a boy who took his own life in 2011 covers his face with a handkerchief as he cries Tuesday in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, after the local district court ruled that bullying by two of his son's classmates led to the boy's suicide. | KYODO
    The father of a boy who took his own life in 2011 covers his face with a handkerchief as he cries Tuesday in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, after the local district court ruled that bullying by two of his son's classmates led to the boy's suicide. | KYODO

  • JIJI, Kyodo

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OTSU, SHIGA PREF. – The Otsu District Court on Tuesday ordered two former classmates of a boy who killed himself in 2011 at the age of 13 to pay damages totaling about ¥37.5 million, recognizing that their bullying of the victim was the cause of his death.

“The assault by the two former classmates had escalated, and as the student’s relations with friends collapsed … he felt a strong sense of isolation and started to think he wanted to die,” presiding Judge Shigeyasu Nishioka said when handing down the ruling.

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