Tokai University has announced that it has taken measures to suspend the club's activities for the time being due to an incident in which upperclassmen forced members under the age of 20, including new first-year students, to drink alcohol and assaulted them.
Tokai University announced this on its website on the 8th.
According to this report, it was discovered that upperclassmen of the baseball club active on the Shonan campus were forcing members under the age of 20, including new first-year students, to drink alcohol and assaulting them.
The university sincerely apologizes for the great inconvenience caused to the victims and everyone involved, and says the details are currently under investigation.We take the situation extremely seriously and ask all students to refrain from drinking alcohol. We will implement educational programs aimed at eradicating all forms of violent behavior, including coercion, and strive to prevent it from happening again.
They also announced that they have taken measures to suspend baseball club activities for the time being.
Tokai University is a major university baseball powerhouse, having won the All-Japan University Baseball Championship four times, and has produced many professional baseball players, including former Giants manager Tatsunori Hara and pitcher Tomoyuki Kanno.
On the other hand, in 2020, the Japan Student Baseball Association, which oversees university baseball, imposed a three-month ban on the club from playing overseas after two members were found to be using marijuana in their dorm rooms. I did.