Why is English difficult? Considering the Koryo High School issue (Part 1)
The exciting summer Koshien tournament (National High School Baseball Championship). How will the final between Okinawa Shogaku and Nichidai Sanko turn out? This article was written at such a time.
This has been a wonderful tournament that produced many great games. Among them, I was literally "moved to tears" by Prefectural Gifu Commercial High School, which defeated the spring champion Yokohama in the quarterfinals. I have no memory of a Koshien that moved me this much.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the high school baseball players😊😊.
However, just as there is always darkness in the shadow of light, there is a dark side that must be addressed.
That is the case where Koryo High School (representing Hiroshima Prefecture) withdrew from the tournament (winning the first round, but losing by default in the second round) following the spread of news about an assault incident.
There is likely no reader who does not know about the series of events that caused a huge uproar (hereinafter referred to as this case). If by any chance you do not know, please refer to the link below ↓.
Many opinions have been sent regarding this case. Some say "violence is unforgivable," some say "it is an organizational problem," and some say "those involved should take responsibility."
While those are all reasonable, in this article, I would like to consider this case from a different angle (a perspective different from the opinions that have appeared so far). In other words, I will put a spotlight on the "feelings of the victim."
According to various reports, the assault incident in question occurred in January 2025. It is said that a first-year student (at the time) was assaulted and verbally abused by multiple second-year students (at the time) for eating cup ramen, which is prohibited within the baseball club.
The incident has already become a criminal case (the victim's mother submitted a damage report to the Hiroshima Prefectural Police in June 2025), but I will not touch on that in this article either. This is because I judge it to be widely known.
What I want to point out about this case is the relationship between the victim and manager Tetsuyuki Nakai.
It is said that the victim left the dormitory after the assault incident and had an interview with manager Nakai when he returned to the dormitory once.
I imagine that the victim must have held a faint hope that "if I can talk directly to the manager, he will understand my feelings."
Why? Because that was the case for me.
In situations where organizational illegal acts are rampant, the victim mistakenly thinks that "I am the one who is wrong" and blames themselves. Even if they suddenly come to their senses and criticize the perpetrator's wrongdoing, the person in charge of the organization will not acknowledge it.
On the contrary, they will even go so far as to harp on the victim's faults.
In this case, it is said that manager Nakai accused the victim by saying, "Is it okay if the second-year students' external games are cancelled?" as if it were the victim's fault that the seniors would not be able to play in games.
The despair of the victim at this time is beyond imagination. I (Kumarin19) also experienced unspeakable harassment by "English teachers/instructors who cannot speak English" when I became able to speak English in 2021.
They have their own lives and pride (admitting that they cannot speak English means not only the collapse of their identity but also a crisis for their own profession), so there is a part of it that cannot be helped, but my impression at the time was, "Do they really go this far?" at the company's claim that "being able to speak English is bad."
People will do anything nasty to protect their vested interests. That is something you can understand by looking at members of the Diet and executives of large corporations.
Acts that further gouge the emotional wounds suffered by the victim (mainly by denouncing the victim) are called "secondary harassment," and I personally imagine that this case falls exactly into that category.
The victim's own suffering is not acknowledged. Even if they talk to the person in charge, they are told as if they themselves are the ones who are wrong.
If you ever encounter a case like this, let me give you some advice as someone who has experienced it.
He is the mastermind.
In this case, the power-harassment culture at Koryo High School is directly linked to the qualities (including the historical background) of the person in charge, Manager Nakai.
In other words, the culture of violence permeating the Koryo High School baseball team is both an individual problem for Manager Nakai and, at the same time, a problem for the entire baseball team.
The quality of an organization is clearly connected to the quality of its leader. If an organization is rotten, it is because the leader is rotten.
That is precisely why a leader must never neglect to refine themselves.
Manager Nakai of Koryo High School. He was once a courageous person who spoke out against the Japan High School Baseball Federation (to be introduced in the next article), but he was also a person who became corrupt at the same time he gained power.
In this case, I believe that was exposed in an easy-to-understand way.
I, Kumarin19, am a victim of corporate crime, and also a person who makes it my mission to fight against various companies.
If the victims of this case or those involved read this article, I would like them to keep the following in mind.