However, this can be traced to the 7th Century. Corporal punishment in Japanese schools Corporal punishment in the schools of Japan has been reported by the Japanese Ministry of Education. The number of cases of corporal punishment reported from 1990 to 1995 was approximately 700 to 1,000 cases each year. These two figures show that corporal punishment has been increasing during the past five years or so. The number of punished children increased with age.
Boys are more often victims than girls, but among the teachers involved, neither sex predominated.
This study also analyzed the feelings of parents and children regarding the punishment. Nearly half the children felt the corporal punishment they received was severe or too severe for what they had done. It is noted that the shorter the school career of the father, the higher his acceptance rate was. Corporal punishment in Japanese homes Corporal punishment no doubt occurs in Japanese homes, but so far there is no well-documented study on how school children are treated in their homes. As expected from the parents' disapproval of corporal punishment in the previous section, we can only imagine that while this may occur at home, it is probably less frequent, if it happens at all.