YouTube videos trigger phone revolution against bullying.

This is a breaking story of how one online community is taking their own unique approach to address the problem of bullying at Japanese schools. The two videos pasted here show a boy being harassed by his peers at a high school in Hokkaido. The first one shows him being ridiculed by a girl in a classroom; the other shows him being shoved around by a guy at the bus stop in front of campus. These incidents happened in March. The video clips, which were taken by one student on his cell phone, were recently posted on the massive online BBS, 2ch.net, and on YouTube. An anonymous poster encouraged all readers to call the school after 8am on Thursday, November 9th in an attempt to bombard school officials--who have known about these incidents for months but have deliberately failed to respond--with inquiries about the videos, hoping to incite action. 8am was just a few hours ago in Japan, and the phones at the school have been ringing non-stop ever since. With this and the disturbing story of the boy who sent a suicide notice to the Minister of Education happening within a day of each other, I'm hoping people will start to take this widespread problem--which causes more than 100 school-related youth suicides a year--more seriously. Full story here.