Middle 1 Female Student Suicide Insufficient Investigation Bereaved Family Requests Investigation to Third Party Committee June 23, 20:07

At the time in Tokyo Akishima City, which committed suicide three years ago in 2017, a survivor of a female student in the first year of middle school said that the school and the city board of education did not conduct sufficient investigation, and a third-party committee conducted an investigation. I applied.

According to the Akishima City Board of Education, in October 2017, a female student who was a first grader at the time of municipal junior high school committed suicide at home and died about a month and a half later.

In a questionnaire about school life held in June, female students replied, "I was swearing by other students," and I was consulting that "I was afraid of having trouble with club activities." It means that I was not going to school.

From the answers to the questionnaire to the students who regularly went to school and the interviews with the teachers conducted after the female students committed suicide, it was reported that However, we did not certify it as “a serious situation” based on the Bullying Prevention Measures Promotion Law, saying that “teachers responded in each case and the bullying was resolved”.

He admitted that he was feeling psychologically distressed by troubles at school and said that the cause of suicide was "complex," but that bullying was not the main cause.

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is a guideline for investigations when suicide occurs in children, and if factors related to school life are suspected, a detailed investigation by external experts etc. is requested, but the City Board of Education They say that the survey they conducted was sufficient, and that they did not conduct a detailed survey.

The bereaved family of a female student, who said that the investigation was inadequate, asked the City Board of Education to conduct an investigation by a third-party committee based on the Bullying Prevention Measures Promotion Law by 22nd.

The Akishima City Board of Education says, "We would like to confirm the circumstances at the time and consider future measures."