Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> wrote in message news:<beedv6$sn4$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp>...
> On 7/8/2003 5:51 PM, masayuki yoshida wrote:
> 
> > Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> wrote in message news:<bed105$qbr$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp>...
> > 
> >>On 7/8/2003 8:04 AM, masayuki yoshida wrote:
> >>
> >>>Then, how about this topic - why dozens of school head
> >>>committed suicide recently in Hiroshima, your prefecture.
> >>
> >>Have there really been dozens of such suicides? That is shocking.
> > 
> > I remember that the figure was fouteen - six school heads, six bosses
> > and two staff of the educational board.  I saw the figure in a
> > magazine or newspaper article.
> 
> I assume the "school heads" are principals, or headmasters, and I 
> understand "staff of the educational board," but what are "bosses"?

middle bosses of schools.
 
> > It seems that the BLL interfers with the decision-making of changing
> > school teachers' positions.  They ground the 'chip-in' on a document
> > which was made in the 1970s.  The involvement is so complex.
> 
> So are you saying that these suicides are not related to the Kimigayo 
> issue and are in fact the fault of the Buraku Liberation League? That 
> really is a shock. I had no idea that such things were going on.

See http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~nippon/jogbd_h11_2/jog114.html (in
Japanese) available.

Masayuki