Initially, bullying is generally considered as the first contributing factor in teenage suicide crisis in Japan. In fact, because of a strong emphasis on collectivism of the Japanese culture, most teenagers who are distinctive, having odd social mannerisms and breaking the rules frequently become the prime bullied targets. Moreover, the social hierarchy Consequently, those teenagers have to endure diverse types of bullying, varying from physical, verbal, and social bullying. Nanae Munemasa (2015), who is a 17-year-old victim, reported that she was not only badly beaten up by boys and slapped around by girls in her school’s toilet but also brutally assaulted during her swimming classes. Conversely, facing up to victimization, a large number of pupils might severely suffer in silence instead of telling anybody to seek help due to their nervous tension of worsening situations. Besides, many bystanders tend not to either actively intervene or report to adults because . According to a research of Kanetsuna and Smith (2002), over 70 percent of children claimed that observers ought to stand out and
Journalist Mariko Oi (2015) pointed out: “The Japanese term for the entrance exam race includes the word ‘war’ - it is a fierce battle for many Japanese children”. Today, Japanese students have to be confronted with a significant amount of stress from the society, parents, teachers, and peers due to education. As can be seen from the reality, Japanese generally have deep-rooted prejudices of career status, class, and especially education, which considerably raises the social pressure on adolescents’ performances at schools (CRITERIA). Besides, academic attainment taken as the first priority by Japanese parents, together with teenagers’ guilty feelings about disappointing and adversely affecting their families, frequently causes children great emotional stress of their study. Writer Iga (1986)