Teachers and Professors in Trouble in Japan

I don't know if the Japanese have more trouble with their teachers and professors or if when things go wrong the Japanese consider the offenses more news worthy.

After all my years in Japan, I should think I know the answer but…

It might be that the Japanese 'sensei' begins with respect and has to lose it. In the West, even the teacher must earn respect.

So, when a Japanese teacher loses it (the respect) it's worthy of news. I may be wrong.

Still…Tokyo University, Japan's best, had a professor resign because he was caught and arrested for groping a woman on a train.

He was a professor a the university's grad school for law and politics.

Meanwhile, teachers at an elementary school in Tokyo's

Adachi-ku have admitted to pointing out wrong test answers to their students during achievement tests.

The teachers are saying the principal and vice principal ordered them to do it. The principal is saying, "Nope, not me!"

And, that is how Japanese kids learn to avoid taking responsibility.

Of course, if a teacher/administrator were to take the blame…the end would not be pretty.