Overview
- Japan’s education ministry held an emergency online session with prefectural and designated-city education chiefs, directing checks for unrecognized bullying or violence and calling for information literacy lessons this term.
- The Oita City Board of Education asked its legal counsel to pursue deletion of circulating assault videos to prevent secondary harm to the students involved.
- Officials confirmed three social media videos tied to an Oita City middle school were authentic and involved the same male student as the perpetrator.
- At an emergency principals’ meeting, Oita authorities urged stronger teacher monitoring, in-school staff training, guidance on handling education tablets used to film the incidents, and consultation with police-deployed school supporters.
- A separate high school assault video from Tochigi Prefecture also spread online, underscoring nationwide concern over violent incidents recorded and shared on social media.