Judo mishap: comatose pupil's parents suing city, et al., for damages
At Fukushima prefecture's Sugagawa Municipal Junior High School Number One while training in the judo section a grade seven girl (15) was knocked unconscious when thrown by a boy pupil. On the 31st she and her parents sued the city and prefecture for neglecting their obligatory care for safety, as well as the boy pupil and his mother for the cost of 63 years of nursing, consolation money, etc., for 230 million yen in restitution money in a Kohriyama branch of the Fukushima district court.
According to their plaint, in October of '03 she stopped to rest while training upon hurting her leg which angered the judo coach whose grade eight boy pupil threw her, her head impacting against the rice-straw mats several times. Due to acute, subdural hemorrhage she has not regained her senses even now. In September of '05 at the Sugagawa prefectural police station, the lecturer, then assistant teacher and deputy advisor, was charged with professional negligence in documents submitted to the Fukushima district public prosecutor's office. This time by way of complaint they claimed Sukagawa city was withholding any comments because it hadn't looked at the petition. [Kouichi FUKUZAWA]
Mainichi newspaper 2006 August 31 19:59 military time zone I (Japan, Australian CST)