International comparative Study on bullying / School Violence

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A self -report standard questionnaire, which is aimed for international comparative study to analyze facts on bullying and school violence, has been developed and it was translated into several languages to be administered in four countries where fifth through ninth grade students corresponded.Findings are as follow. Rates of experience of being bullied are : England 30.4%, the Netherlands 20.0%, Norway 20.8%, and Japan 10.9%. It is confirmed that bullying does happen not only in Japan but also in other countries, i. e., bullying is by no means phenomena unique to Japan. The figure of Japan is the smallest but the rates of high-frequency-long-term victims (those who had experience of being bullied more than once a week AND longer than a term) in the whole victims are: Japan 10.8%, Norway 10.4%, the Netherlands 10.8%, and England 10.5%. It suggests that much of Japanese bullying is rather serious.Characteristics of bullying in Japan, are: a forms of negligence and exclusion are comparatively frequent (this tendency is more obvious among girls), they happen typically in classrooms, many students are frequently bullied by their own classmates. Each country has some characteristic tendencies in how bullying is, how it happen, and how students and adults react to them. For example, bullying in the Netherlands can be called criminal type.Nowadays, many intervention/prevention programs against bullying have bee been translated and introduced in Japan. However, simple adoption of foreign cases, which are successful in a certain country, will not work since characteristics of pathologies of bullying vary country to country. Deliberate consideration and study on foreign practices should be taken, based on comparative examination, including cultural comparative analysis.