http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/140131/crm14013100280001-n1.htm translated by Brett Larner In response to questioning on Jan. 30, administration officials from National High School Girls Ekiden Championships regular Kamimura Gakuen H.S. of Ichikikushikino, Kagoshima, admitted that the male head coach of its girls' ekiden team had performed corporal punishment against first-year team members. Confirming the factual basis of the situation, the school administration apologized to parents and placed the head coach under indefinite suspension. According to the administration, during a team training camp last August the head coach told a female student, "You need stronger abs," before punching her in the stomach hard twice with his fist. Earlier this month he told a girl on the team, "Try harder," as he pinched her cheeks. Administration officials also said that another girl stopped coming to the school this month after the coach told her, "If you...
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