Kyle's World

I guess you hear about it on the news and stuff, but Japan has had a rash of crimes in recent years, many taking place at schools. By our standards, Japan is still a very safe country. But still, we bristle at the thought of violence in schools, so necessary training was needed.

The other day at me school, we had 不審者 training. A 不審者is loosely translated as a suspicious person, ie. someone that might come into a school to commit a crime. This 不審者 training was something else. We had a staff meeting after school, complete with a demonstration. We played janken to see who would become the 不審者 actor. I lost, but then I jankened with Shimazaki sensei, and ended up beating her. So I thought that she would be the 不審者 but then I was called out to demonstate suspicious activities in front of the whole school. Sure, pick on the gaijin since I'm the most likely to be suspicious.

I was told to attack my vice principal as he tried to defend himself with a plastic pole. Sure, seemed easy enough. I attacked him, threw his plastic pole aside, and started punching him, much to the delight of the other teachers.

But then he told me to attack him again, but this time he'd use defense techniques. I tried, but he ended up winning. He pushed me hard with the pole to my sternum, perhaps revenge for my punching him. Then he tried to pin my knees with it.

The next volunteer has to attack vice-principal with a paint brush. I know it wasa simulation, but c'mon, a plastic pole? A paint brush?

If a 不審者 comes to out school, one of several things will happen. We'll all be screwed. Or we'll all run away. Or we won't remember what we learned in the simulation because it was too far from reality. Or the plastic pole and paint brush combination will work wonders and we'll run the 不審者 off. Give me my aluminum baseball bat any day of the week, and I'll run the 不審者off myself.