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The Dark Truth of Youth Sports

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*Content Warning: This video discusses abuse, suicide, and bullying.*

The practice of “taibatsu,” or corporal punishment, has deep roots in Japan’s education system, especially in its youth sports programs where abusive coaches often go unpunished. Tsubasa Araya was a star volleyball player. He was tall, respected by his friends, and outwardly happy. But he was struggling with the effects of years of verbal abuse by his coach—a man who was accused of bullying but allowed to continue coaching. Tsubasa tragically committed suicide, making him the latest high school athlete to do so because of their coach’s abuse. VICE News meets his father Satoru Araya as he fights to hold the school accountable for his son’s death.

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20 comments

@lofiweirdo1643 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
i've been under the impresssion lately, that over the past years suicide is becoming more present in anime - yeah, apart from documentaries and random things about their culture, that's the only japanese content i consume, i'm sorry for being a such a nerd - but anyways, topics like suicide, bullying and overwork are indeed having more attention, even in entirely mental health unrelated anime, such as jujutsu (a show that's a lot like naruto, but NOT THE POINT HERE)

if someone knows if there is on the internet some kind of research, documentarie or even videos about how suicide has been being approached in japan over the last 30~40 years, i'd like to read it

i thank in advance, and remember, talking helps
@zhourenou7860 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
This happens in China as well...... My PE teacher called my friend a “loser that only knows to escape things”, “A useless waste” multiple times when she was clearly unable to finish the task that the teacher assigned her to. We were at 7th grade, luckily the teacher did not teach us anymore. It is truly traumatising. Sometimes they even verbally abuse you when your team win because apparently “you are too arrogant to think that you will win again.”.....
@babykonyol165 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
We need phantom thieves to change Kamoshida's heart
@jackorion7157 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
Yeah Japan is a model society right?
@Primo978 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
and they still cant win a gold metal
@SpaceAce1993 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
Any grown ass man or woman thinks of putting their hands on my teenage child is gonna get knocked out
@villesanti1 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
I dont think is much about young sport problem, but a cultural one. Japan even has a forest where people, of all walks of life, go to die.
@SyrusTheCreation October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
Makes me proud to be American. And that's rare lately
@Sonfesam October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
Japan will run out of youths.
@jackalwill October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
This has to stop! I hope the parents get a justice they deserved
@sandramoore4356 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
It baffles me, when parents claim they had no knowledge their children were hurting. I 100% do not believe that. If parents know their children, if they took the time to listen and watch their child, they wouldn't be in the dark about the life of those children. Parents need to slow down and truly listen to what their children are saying. If they would only have taken that niggling bad feeling WE ALL GET, and followed through with it... so many lives could've been saved.
@route3133 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
Y’all Japan folks gotta get on that with these coaches. Start popping their tops.
@ViRrOorR October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
this is some persona 5 sht right here
@shaunbang October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
What’s sad is that the majority of sports people will say that it is disciplining and that those complaining are simply weak and shouldn’t do the sport at all if they cannot handle the pressures and standards as hitting and scolding kids is part of making them into strong and good athletes which will influence the rest of the country into thinking it’s just a necessary evil in order to achieve glory in sports
@WARDADDY240 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
Eh doesn't seem as bad as Texas football...literally had a kid drop dead from exhaustion last year or the year before, where I'm from...Then again for the longest time we had the most state championships in football in the state and for a population of 20k we put a hell of alot of division 1 players on the field
@tkh6285 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
I grew up in Japan and left Japan when I was 24… I know we do have cool culture things so on but we have some deep deep issue as a whole. All of us japanese are abused one way or another due to the customs they practice…. I love my country but I’m so frustrated by how mental health issue is still not a thing.
@Clo_Dub October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
What a fantastic father 🧡
@smoke4824 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
Japan dont care if you beat their kids it's just like naruto over there 😅🤣
@MondeSerenaWilliams October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
I guess the way Shinji and the other pilots were treated in Neon Genesis Evangelion is accurate huh.
@rja9784 October 19, 2024 - 12:43 pm
Stop blaming the coach and blame his parents for raising a child with a weak emotional fortitude and an even weaker self respect and an equally excessive view of himself. Life is hard. Everyone that survived their teenage years knows this. Only the weak minded commit suicide over the trivial pursuits of early adulthood. I would further add that the very act of suicide is the absolute most selfish thing a person can do. In the very act of suicide, the only thing on the persons mind is themselves. Ultimate selfish pride.

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