{"id":73349,"date":"2025-08-11T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/11\/japan-baseball-bullying-koryo-high-school-tournament-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:22:57","slug":"japan-rocked-by-bullying-scandal-after-team-withdraws-from-high-school-baseball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73349","title":{"rendered":"Japan rocked by bullying scandal after team withdraws from high school baseball tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Koryo high pulled out of the popular competition after an outcry over reports that some of its members had bullied a junior player<\/p>\n<p>One of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s most popular sports tournaments is reeling after the sudden withdrawal of a team whose teenage players have been accused of abusing a younger teammate.<\/p>\n<p>Koryo high school, which had been representing Hiroshima prefecture in the summer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/aug\/22\/japans-field-of-dreams-school-baseball-teams-vie-for-koshien-glory\">high school baseball championships<\/a>, announced on Sunday it would no longer take part.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/11\/japan-baseball-bullying-koryo-high-school-tournament-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koryo high pulled out of the popular competition after an outcry over reports that some of its members had bullied a junior playerOne of Japan\u2019s most popular sports tournaments is reeling after the sudden withdrawal of a team whose teenage players have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3012,1895,88,203,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-baseball","category-bullying","category-japan","category-sport","category-young-people"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73350,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73349\/revisions\/73350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}