https://mainichi.jp/articles/20251225/k00/00m/040/303000c
On the 25th, the Fukushima Prefectural Board of Education announced that it had imposed a 12-month suspension on Miyuki Yamada (57), principal of Fukushima City Hirata Elementary School, for drinking canned chuhai in the principal's office while on duty.
According to the Prefectural Board of Education, at around 1:50 pm on October 15th, a staff member who had come to deliver some submitted documents noticed the smell of alcohol in the principal's office, and discovered a half-full can of chuhai (500ml) and an empty can under Principal Yamada's desk, who was out at the time. Upon being contacted, the Municipal Board of Education entered the principal's office and discovered that the remaining can had been empty, revealing that the student had been drinking.
In questioning by the Prefectural Board of Education, Principal Yamada explained that the canned chuhai was the remainder of the alcohol he had been drinking until the early hours of the same day, and that the only alcohol he had consumed in his office at the time of discovery was half the amount in the can. "I drank some that I had accidentally left in my car from home. I was feeling naive, thinking 'this much is okay,'" he said, denying that he was a regular drinker.
Additionally, on the 25th, the prefectural board of education dismissed a male part-time lecturer in his 20s at a prefectural high school for disciplinary reasons, for committing indecent acts against a woman in October, knowing that she was under the age of 18. [Iwama Riki]
by YamatoRyu2006