Three years ago, two 6th grade girls who were about to graduate in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, jumped from an apartment and died. Toyota City, which has been investigating the cause, said, "There is bullying and it is related to suicide. Cannot be denied. "
In March 2019, two 6th grade girls attending the same elementary school in Toyota City jumped from the apartment and died, and the city's board of education set up a review committee to investigate the cause, considering it as suicide. I did.
The results were finalized in June, but the bereaved family demanded that the investigation be continued due to insufficient investigation, and the city set up a re-investigation team to continue the investigation and announced the results on the 29th.
In the initial investigation by the Review Committee, he admitted that there was bullying at school, but revealed that he had concluded that it was not related to suicide.
However, as a result of conducting a questionnaire to all children of the same grade in the re-survey, more bullying than the review committee had certified was found, such as being slandered or ignored by multiple children. It means that it was confirmed.
Based on this, the review team revised the conclusion of the review committee and concluded that "although it is not a direct cause, the link between bullying and suicide cannot be denied."
Koji Yamamoto, the superintendent of education of the Toyota City Board of Education, said, "I sincerely apologize for not being able to respond as an organization due to the lack of awareness of the faculty and staff due to bullying at a school that should be safe and secure." ..
Meanwhile, the two bereaved families made comments, one of whom said, "The bullying has been newly revealed and we can now understand how the child committed suicide. Opportunity to face the facts and look back on the perpetrators. I hope that you will learn from this survey and become a world where children and parents who share the same feelings will not be born. "