SCHOLARLY LOVE
Members of the Diet heard testimony April.15 about the use of corporal punishment by the president of Kokushikan University, Tokyo L200 teachers and 4,100 students], on professors and by professors on students on the campus.
Professor Sojiro Kajima, who was recently dismissed by the president, said a large number of persons including himself had witnessed corporal punishment inflicted on professors and students.
It was also brought out in testimony that university authorities refused to permit students to sit in examination unless they bought an "anti-Communist" book written by the president.
The president of the university, Hikosane Yokoyama, defended the use of corporal punishment. It was, he said, an expression of love for the students.
He gave a long lecture on yamato damashii, the "Spirit of Japan." This evidently includes a strong sadistic streak like its Nazi counterpart.
One of the goals of graduates of Kokushikan University is to go to the United States as instructors of judo, karate, aikido and Similar arts that have increasingly become a part of the American Way of Life in recent years.
LAW