Taken from UPI 21/2/96
Yes, we have suspended the teacher for three months, Tokyo school
board official Tomio Shimazaki admitted to reporters. He had his
reasons, but we wish to make it clear that ordering pupils to commit
hara-kiri is simply no longer acceptable in Japanese schools.
Shimazaki freely accepted that the unnamed teacher, 28, had
over-stepped the mark. He was angry because two junior high school
students had brought candy along on a school camping trip and did
not offer to share.
To punish them, he placed two hunting knives in front of them and
told them to disembowel themselves, saying that ritual suicide was
the only honourable course they could take. They both refused,
whereupon he repeatedly struck them both with a tent pole, and had
to be restrained by colleagues when he began to fashion a noose
from a guy rope. In his defence, he said he was annoyed with them.
the text on the rising sun tshirt says stupid forgieners(or so im told)