OK, I must completely disagree. I've been teaching English in Japan for 8 years, at least half a decade longer than Gaijin Goombah did and while you will find idiot teachers like the one described in his video, they are rapidly becoming the exception rather than the rule. Japan knows it's English level makes it an…

Partly to say "We neither teach nor condone this sort of behavior." and because, as Aiiyah points out, the schools are just as responsible for the moral upbringing of the students as the parents. Japanese schools even have 道徳 lessons (roughly translated: Morality class) at least once a week. It's mostly "What's the…

Same here in Chiba and the same where I used to work in Niigata. I think the idea is that the schools spend mote time with the kids in an average day than the parents, plus the cops would rather not bother the parents at work.

I'm a foreigner living in Japan right now and YES! You are ABSOLUTELY expected to apologize when culturally appropriate, even if, by US standards, no apology would be needed. For example, a situation occurred at my job last year where I showed up to work dripping wet because it was raining the type of rain against…