{"id":7412,"date":"2009-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.comnews\/supreme-court-rejects-claim-of-corporal-punishment-in-kumamoto-case\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T00:00:00","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-claim-of-corporal-punishment-in-kumamoto-case","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/supreme-court-rejects-claim-of-corporal-punishment-in-kumamoto-case\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Supreme Court Rejects Claim of Corporal Punishment in Kumamoto Case<!--:--><!--:ja-->Supreme Court Rejects Claim of Corporal Punishment in Kumamoto Case<!--:--><!--:ko-->Supreme Court Rejects Claim of Corporal Punishment in Kumamoto Case<!--:--><!--:zh-->Supreme Court Rejects Claim of Corporal Punishment in Kumamoto Case<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2002, a part-time teacher in a primary school in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, grabbed the shirt front of a second-grader to scold him. Two lower courts ruled that this constituted physical punishment prohibited by Japanese law and ordered the city to pay compensation to the student\u2019s family. The Japanese Supreme Court, however, overturned both lower court rulings and vacated the order for compensation, saying that it did not overstep the limits of educational guidance and was not corporal punishment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ja--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2002, a part-time teacher in a primary school in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, grabbed the shirt front of a second-grader to scold him. Two lower courts ruled that this constituted physical punishment prohibited by Japanese law and ordered the city to pay compensation to the student\u2019s family. The Japanese Supreme Court, however, overturned both lower court rulings and vacated the order for compensation, saying that it did not overstep the limits of educational guidance and was not corporal punishment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ko--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2002, a part-time teacher in a primary school in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, grabbed the shirt front of a second-grader to scold him. Two lower courts ruled that this constituted physical punishment prohibited by Japanese law and ordered the city to pay compensation to the student\u2019s family. The Japanese Supreme Court, however, overturned both lower court rulings and vacated the order for compensation, saying that it did not overstep the limits of educational guidance and was not corporal punishment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:zh--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2002, a part-time teacher in a primary school in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, grabbed the shirt front of a second-grader to scold him. Two lower courts ruled that this constituted physical punishment prohibited by Japanese law and ordered the city to pay compensation to the student\u2019s family. The Japanese Supreme Court, however, overturned both lower court rulings and vacated the order for compensation, saying that it did not overstep the limits of educational guidance and was not corporal punishment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, a part-time teacher in a primary school in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, grabbed the shirt front of a second-grader to scold him. Two lower courts ruled that this constituted physical punishment prohibited by Japanese law and ordered the city to pay compensation to the student\u2019s family. The Japanese Supreme Court, however, overturned both lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-7412","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/7412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}