The Osaka City Board of Education has decided that the municipally-run Sakuranomiya Senior High School will suspend entrance examinations for its physical education and sports health departments this year.
The decision was made in response to a demand made by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto in the wake of a suicide of the captain of the school's basketball team in December after being subject to corporal punishment by a teacher who served as the team's coach.
Mayor Hashimoto said that since use of violence by certain teachers at the school had become habitual and teachers, students and their parents had tacitly accepted it, the physical education-related departments of the school should not accept new students this spring to halt the "continuation" of violence.