SNA (Tokyo) — Working parents in Japan must often entrust their children to schools during the daytime. Some schools, like this one in Himeji, are small, family-run operations, without effective official regulation. The owner and teachers, while playing a game in which they dressed up like demons to startle the children, decided that one of the children was misbehaving and needed to be punished for his actions.

Would you want your child to be treated like this? Questions are being raised about whether some schools in Japan need to be better regulated by authorities.

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