Reply #29: This is from a Japanese educators' web site

[Art_from_Ark]

"あるいは、放射線には関連していないらしいけれども、福島県から転校してきた子を集団でいじめた、というケース。

「いじめ」の理由は何でもかまわないのかもしれませんが、震災で大きな被害を受けて、心身ともに傷つき、弱っている相手をいじめの対象にするとは、あまりにも他者への愛や共感力に欠ける行いであり、人として許されることではないと思います。
また、後者のケースでは、始業式の１週間後に、被害児童が「悪口を言われている」と、担任教諭に相談していたにもかかわらず、その後に暴力を受けてケガをさせられています。"

"There was a case where a transfer student from Fukushima was subjected to group bullying, even though he/she seemed to have nothing to do with radiation"

"It doesn't matter what the reasons for bullying are, I think what happens is that kids who have been injured, emotionally and/or physically, by the disaster, are seen as weak by other kids who taunt them because they (bullies) are lacking the ability to love or empathize with others. I think it is something that should not be tolerated."

"In addition, in the case of transfer student from Fukushima, he/she asked a teacher for counseling about gossip being spread about him/her a week after the first day of school, but despite that, the child was injured by violent bullying after that".

http://www.edita.jp/education2/archive/category11-new.html