Oda resigns as a coach over "moral harassment"
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Their disagreement was about new academic requirements for Kangaku skaters necessary to participate in intercollege competitions, which is unusual in college sports in Japan. Mie Hamada said that the new rule of the skating club that Oda proposed may prevent skaters from practicing enough hours and some worried skaters came to her about the academic issue.
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My guess is we will not know true whole story, as always.
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Is the term translated as "moral harassment" intended as a contrast to "physical harassment," rather than having anything to do with "morality" as in "right versus wrong" or "good versus evil"?
Physical bullying would be pushing someone down and kicking him in the face. Are we to understand that "moral bullying" refers to snubbing someone socially or disrespecting them professionally?
Physical bullying would be pushing someone down and kicking him in the face. Are we to understand that "moral bullying" refers to snubbing someone socially or disrespecting them professionally?
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I looked on Japanese Wikipedia, and it looks like it comes from a French word "moral," in this context meaning "nonphysical/verbal/psychological/whatever." Another site gave ignoring, insults, glaring, etc. as examples.
Talk about a Japanese vocabulary word I'd really rather not have had cause to learn. :sarcasm:
Talk about a Japanese vocabulary word I'd really rather not have had cause to learn. :sarcasm:
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Official comment by JSF.
"As a federation, we can no do anything about it. It's the problem of Kansai University, and Oda-kun is not a registered athlete in our federation. We are not in the position to make comments on the issue."
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20191003-00000137-dal-spo
"As a federation, we can no do anything about it. It's the problem of Kansai University, and Oda-kun is not a registered athlete in our federation. We are not in the position to make comments on the issue."
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20191003-00000137-dal-spo
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I speak Japanese, and I'd actually never heard the term "moral harassment" (in Japanese usually shortened to モラハラ: "morahara"), so I also ended up doing a lot of googling in both languages when the story came out. If it helps anyone understand, some of the Japanese commenters to Oda's blog also used the term "power harassment" (パワハラ - powahara), which also has an English Wikipedia page that might be helpful. Obviously, the commenters don't know the details of the situation past what Nobu posted (and he specifically chose the words "moral harassment"), but it might be helpful to know that some Japanese people use the words interchangeably.
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Update:
https://twitter.com/nikkansports/status/1196292380913094656
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20191118/k00/00m/040/142000c
Nobunari Oda is filing a lawsuit against Coach Mie Hamada for Moral Harassment.
-Is suing for compensation of 11 million yen -- approx. 101,081.75USD
There was a press conference today, and here are the details, https://twitter.com/Sankei_news/status/1196294724790829056?s=20
Response from Kandai https://www.daily.co.jp/general/2019/11/18/0012887487.shtml
https://twitter.com/nikkansports/status/1196292380913094656
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20191118/k00/00m/040/142000c
Nobunari Oda is filing a lawsuit against Coach Mie Hamada for Moral Harassment.
-Is suing for compensation of 11 million yen -- approx. 101,081.75USD
There was a press conference today, and here are the details, https://twitter.com/Sankei_news/status/1196294724790829056?s=20
Response from Kandai https://www.daily.co.jp/general/2019/11/18/0012887487.shtml
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:shocked: holy moly!
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English article that summarizes todays news from Mainichi
Pro figure skater Nobunari Oda goes to court alleging harassment by Kansai Univ. coach https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191118/p2a/00m/0na/006000c
Pro figure skater Nobunari Oda goes to court alleging harassment by Kansai Univ. coach https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191118/p2a/00m/0na/006000c
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Oda's blog post was also updated. (for Japanese readers)
https://ameblo.jp/oda-nobunari/entry-12546485610.html?timestamp=1574058398
https://ameblo.jp/oda-nobunari/entry-12546485610.html?timestamp=1574058398
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I read through Nobu's blog.
I think we should wait his own announcement in English, as he did before in his own blog, not jump to translation done by unknowns or google.
The blog is carefully written, probably under the supervision of a lawyer.
It has to be translated in the same way by professionals, to avoid misunderstandings and confusion.
Anyway, he did wonderful job as a commentator for COR last weekend. I respect his professionalism.
I think we should wait his own announcement in English, as he did before in his own blog, not jump to translation done by unknowns or google.
The blog is carefully written, probably under the supervision of a lawyer.
It has to be translated in the same way by professionals, to avoid misunderstandings and confusion.
Anyway, he did wonderful job as a commentator for COR last weekend. I respect his professionalism.
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True. Recently I have been a little afraid of translating Japanese articles or interviews into English. And needless to say, we have to be careful in this kind of sensitive issue.
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Wow, I wonder how Japanese officials will react to that. Surely they will have to launch investigations.
Wow, I'm flabbergasted.
Edit: have to add how saddened I am by this news. I've always thought Hamada was an upstanding and admirable coach. For her sake and her students I hope the allegations aren't true, whatever they might be. But there's also no reason for Oda to lie about this and risk his own career. I guess all we can do is wait for the trial, but either way I just feel sad. Alas
Edit: have to add how saddened I am by this news. I've always thought Hamada was an upstanding and admirable coach. For her sake and her students I hope the allegations aren't true, whatever they might be. But there's also no reason for Oda to lie about this and risk his own career. I guess all we can do is wait for the trial, but either way I just feel sad. Alas
